Re: Serious GRUB booting problem after install Ubuntu 9.10beta for testing it.

Tom H wrote:
"grub-install" and "grub-setup -d...." is done at the linux command
shell. Can any grub2 command be done at the >grub shell to do the same
function, like "root, setup" is used for grub-legacy?

grub> help
Lists the available commands and setup is not there.

http://grub.enbug.org/CommandList says that both install and setup are
unnecessary and root is a variable.

Could rescue mode be the reason for the unnecessary? No idea.


Okay, Tom, thanks. I've been trying since intro of grub2 to find a
'replacement' for 'root, setup' at the grub prompt. Nothing that I know
of, so far. Will be handy like in Luis' problem without needing to boot
into linux. My Linux experience as a beginner has been fraught with
unbootable and blank grub starts, (causing me to reinstall, usually
without success!) so perhaps I am 'paranoid' about unbootable systems
(or rendered unbootable).

I always have a blank (no menu.lst) grub-legacy CD, now a blank grub2
CD, and I've set up a 'first grub' partition that will boot any OS in
any partition (or external drive) regardless of any failure in any OS.
Talking about paranoid!

Thanks Tom.

Regards,
Goh Lip


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