SOLVED Re: F16 grub2 prompt, help needed

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 14:04:35 UTC 2011


On 14/10/11 12:11, Michael Schwendt wrote:
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>
> Running grub2-mkconfig without options does only print the config file
> to standard output. You would need
>
>    grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
> to actually overwrite your GRUB 2 config file.

Thanks Michael,

That was it,

>
>> grub2-install /dev/vda
>> no errors reported.
>>
>> rebooted got:
>> grub>
>
> A working command-line? If so, you could use GRUB's commands to search
> for and load the grub.cfg file manually, then boot it.

Never liked command-line, outside of X,
Need my security blanket.

Used an iso to do a rescue boot, then fixed config from within X.



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Frank Murphy
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