Hosting Provided By

Re: /boot/grub missing in Debian 4.0 installation

From: Javier Vasquez <jevv.cr(at)gmail.com>
Date: Fri Aug 17 2007 - 15:31:15 EDT

On 8/17/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <masatran@research.iiit.ac.in> wrote:
> I am moving my computer from Testing to Stable. I installed Stable on a new
> partition, and want to configure GRUB. But /boot/grub is missing! It was a
> routine install, except that I did not select "Desktop environment" in
> TaskSel. Why is /boot/grub missing? And how can I get it created? The
> computer is a two-year-old I386-based laptop. Some other info:
>
> masatran@masatran:~$ ls /boot
> config-2.6.18-4-486 initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486.bak vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-486
> initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 System.map-2.6.18-4-486
>
> masatran@masatran:~$ sudo aptitude search grub
> p ggz-grubby - GGZ Gaming Zone: chat bot with the ability to play games
> i grub - GRand Unified Bootloader
> p grub-disk - GRUB bootable disk image
> p grub-doc - Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader
> p grub-splashimages - a collection of great GRUB splashimages
>
> --
> Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>

Not sure if this would help (examples might change according to your configuration):

aptitude install grub (apt-get instead of aptitude is you don't use aptitude) grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda update-grub

If your /boot corresponds to a different partition than /, then you might:

grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda cd /boot
ln -s . boot
grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda update-grub

You can consult:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.html#Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall

Or:

Do you need help?

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html

Also if you want grub2 instead of grub-legacy, then if grub-pc is present, then install it and if not, then install grub2 (under unstable it's grub-pc)...

-- 
Javier


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org

Received on Fri Aug 17 15:32:49 2007

This message: [ Message body ]
Next message: Andrei Popescu: "Re: FYI: Severe Vulnerability in Opera 9.22"
Previous message: Nate Bargmann: "Re: /boot/grub missing in Debian 4.0 installation"
In reply to: Masatran, R. Deepak: "/boot/grub missing in Debian 4.0 installation"

Contemporary messages sorted: [ By Date ] [ By Thread ] [ By Subject ] [ By Author ] [ By messages with attachments ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Sun Oct 07 2007 - 02:20:46 EDT