:: Re: [DNG] no display of GRUB menu
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Autor: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] no display of GRUB menu
Le 02/06/2018 à 01:55, Haines Brown a écrit :
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 11:21:06PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote:
>> Am 1. Juni 2018 22:24:47 MESZ schrieb Haines Brown <haines@???>:
>>
>>> I installed Jessie on a new disk on a new machine. I can boot it from
>>> the GRUB menu on another disk on that machine, but when I try to boot
>>> the new disk directly, all I get is a blinking cursor at upper left.
>>> Holding down SHFT or ESC during post did not bring up its menu.
>>>
>>> I tried redoing # update-grub.
>>
>> Depending on how you finished the installation routine, you might need
> to not only "update-grub", but also run "grub-install /dev/sdx", where
> "x" is the drive letter (without partition number) of your new disk.
>
> Florian, thanks for the suggestion. I ran # grub-install /dev/sda and
> this was returned:
>
>       installing for i386-pc platform
>       Installation Finished. No errors reported.

>
> I assume that "i386-pc" is appropriate for my 64bit system. The GRUB2
> grub-common on this old machine (Devuan Jessie) is same version as that on
> the new machine.
>
> Doing Ctl-Alt-F2 while the cursor was blinking did nothing.
>
> Incidentally, I also rechecked the UUID numbers for the / and boot
> partitions.
>
> Haines


    Hi Haines.

    Could you describe more acurately the situation? You have two
disks, each with an installed OS. I suppose your working system is on
/dev/sdb and your new, non-booting one is on sda. On which OS are you
running update-grub and grub-install? Let's clarify this before going
further. I would like also to know how you reach this situation because
it canhappen, but I've never seen that after a direct install from the
installer.

            Didier