[PLUG] Desktop machine failures

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Mon Jul 13 21:46:48 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:

> On Jul 13, 2015 2:04 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, this shows the system is using grub legacy and I am pretty sure
> that
> > > is what is causing your boot problems. There is a page here
> > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Upgrading
> > >
> > > describing how to upgrade to grub2.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > Help!  Got through all that, up  through successful chainloading Grub
> 2.
> > Test booted; worked fine.  So then I entered sudo
> > upgrade-from-grub-legacy.  Now I am presented with a screen asking what
> > devices to install Grub on: /dev/sda and /dev/sda1.  I want to select
> > /dev/sda, but I can select neither!  Tab moves the highlight from the [ ]
> > in front of each choice, then to OK, but I cannot make a mark in either
> of
> > the [ ] spaces.  Note that the instruction said I would be presented with
> > this choice earlier in the upgrade process at step 4, but it was not
> > presented.
> >
> > So, how to safely recover from this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Denis
> > _________________
>
> You want to choose /dev/sda, not sda1.
> Space bar should choose the one want, but I am not sure.
>
> Bill


Spacebar was it!  I must have tried most of the keys to no avail.  (Why not
any key, or a msg. saying which key to use??!)

I am so glad you remembered.

-Denis



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