Debian :: Updating Grub And For Some Reason The System Hanged?
May 30, 2011
I was updating grub and for some reason the system hanged. Going to a tty did not solve any problems. At the end I had to do a hard reboot and came up with the following on the grub boot
reloc offset is out of segment Entering rescue mode grub rescue >
Googling for the above I landed on this page.
[URL]
While I'm going to try the later part, is there anything else I need to know about ?
Didn't have to do much, took the the Squeeze 6.10.a DVD, asked it to run into rescue mode and then did grub-install giving the MBR (hd0) as the place to be. Things worked nice after that.
Upon booting had to run
dpkg --configure -a
and it updated grub to 1.99-5 among other updates. Did not know that Squeeze had a rescue method as well (just like Ubuntu live CDs have). Now just have to wait for Debian to get Live CD/DVD as default
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May 9, 2011
I am a new user for ubuntu, recently i have updated to 11.04 version last week. When i kept my desktop idle for long time, the system goes down and it didn't wake up at all. I didnt change in the setting for screen saver and power management still. It is system default.
I didnt face this problem when i use version 10. Only the new version i am facing this.
Any solution for this?
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I get this message:
I have Squeeze in another partition on that computer. I can access the system through the terminal (the graphic is screwed). Is it possible to try my Lenny from this partition? If not, I also have a live cd for Squeeze. Right now I'm on another computer.
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I am using CentOS 5.3. output of "uname -a" Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 18:49:47 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
My kernal version is kernel-2.6.18-92.el5
Whenver i try to copy files from my centos to pendrive ( 2gb, kingston datatraveller) my system is gettin hanged leaving no option then to reboot. i tried from the terminal also, and as a diffrent user also. but same results. sometimes i can copy files of small size. but when i go above 5 mb..system hangs..
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[Code]...
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Aug 20, 2011
i was compiling and installing the new linux kernel for my debian box, i ran the commands
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# make clean
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# cd ..
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i tried to install the new kernel which was made into debian packages ready to be installed and after i ran that last command this is what came up
dpkg: error processing linux-firmware-image_custom.3.0_amd64.deb (--install):
package architecture (amd64) does not match system (i386)
dpkg: error processing linux-headers-3.0.3_custom.3.0_amd64.deb (--install):
package architecture (amd64) does not match system (i386)
[Code]....
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May 1, 2011
i get the following messages and i do not know how to proceed.Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible devise/file completions.
sh:grub>
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My computer's recent history in chronological order:
1. debian jessie is installed using netinstall iso to sda.
2. windows 8.1 is installed to sdc.
Now "lsblk" returns:
Code: Select allNAMEÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â MAJ:MIN RMÂ Â SIZE RO TYPEÂ MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0  0 111.8G 0 diskÂ
├─sda1         8:1  0  512M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2         8:2  0  244M 0 part /boot
└─sda3         8:3  0 111.1G 0 partÂ
 └─sda3_crypt    254:0  0 111.1G 0 crypt
 Â
[code]....
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My purpose:
1. To use debian grub screen to choose between debian and Windows. (To avoid pressing F7 during boot to use debian)
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pidgin:
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Code:
#
# examples
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#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
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