[mythtv-users] Grub problem - or I have a special place in my version of hell reserved for Seagate

[Anthony Giggins]

On 5 August 2016 at 06:13, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:

> Well I solved it tonight, but I bet no-one will guess what the problem was.
>
> Off list I was pointed to http://www.supergrubdisk.org (thanks Nate).
> Great little tool I'd never heard of, takes the hard work out of booting a
> system. Picked up my system, booted it just fine. Did an update-grub and
> grub-install /dev/sda. Rebooted to get ... just that darn blinking cursor
> taunting me again.
>
> Then I had that "oh you plonker" moment and remembered an important
> "feature" of this system (HP Microserver). Once I changed it to boot off
> the right disk, it booted up just fine. Doesn't get me any files back off
> that darned Seagate drive, but the system is back.
>
> Never overlook the simple things !


Boot-repair is awesome also

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

Cheers,

Anthony
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