[PLUG] Desktop machine failures

[Denis Heidtmann]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Which version of grub are you using?   What does
> > grub-probe -V
> > say?
> > It looks like an error message from the old legacy grub. It might be
> > having problems rebooting with the drives changing names between
> > reboots. If it is the old grub, your problems might be fixed by
> > upgrading grub to grub2.
> >
> > Bill
>
> Another possibility is that you have two disk, one of which has an old
> version of grub on it and occasionally your system is trying to boot
> from the disk with the old grub on it. This can be fixed by installing
> the correct grub on all the disks. Make sure you have booted correctly
> to your normal working system and run
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
> choose the defaults until you get to the screen for Grub install
> devices: and put a check mark in front of all the disks /dev/sda ,
> /dev/sdb, not the partitions /dev/sda1 etc.
>
> Bill
>

You can see from my other answer that there is only one disk powered when
booting.

Other than bringing my system into the 21st century, is there a benefit in
changing to Grub 2?  Will the procedure you outline do that for my system
which has the old grub?

Thanks,

-Denis