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Debian Squeeze cleans up the grub2 wallpaper in desktop-base, and we’re a bit closer to Stable

cj2003 — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:58:21 +0000

Previously the Debian logo in the lower right side of the Grub screen tended to obscure the portion of the boot message that tells you how many seconds are left until the machine boots automatically. More here

Recovery Root Password Debian

cj2003 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:36:22 +0000

Boot to the GRUB menu. Then, press (for edit) before Linux has a chance to boot. Using your keyboard arrow keys, move the cursor down a line or so, and press (for edit) again, you should now be on the kernel line, and press to go out to the very end of that line…. More here

Recover/Restore unbootable GRUB boot loader on Debian Testing GNU/Linux using Linux LiveCD (Debian Install CD1)

cj2003 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:36:59 +0000

Thus yesterday while switching on my notebook I was unpleasently surprised with an error Grub Error 17 and the boot process was hanging before it would even get to grub’s OS select menu More here

Creating GRUB/Syslinux splash images

cj2003 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:30:31 +0000

Here’s a small post on GRUB splash image creation and Syslinux splash image creation More here

Bits from the GRUB maintainers

cj2003 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:22:56 +0000

Hi, As you may have noticed, upgrades of the GRUB Legacy package (`grub’) in unstable have begun using GRUB 2 (`grub-pc’ package) as upgradepath. This means that tentatively, GRUB 2 is to be considered theoption for Lenny to Squeeze upgrades. It should also become the option for new Squeeze installs.

This decision is not final yet! We’re looking for feedback on this
transition. First and foremost, we need people to test GRUB 2 on their
machines and report any issues that they may find.

GRUB 2 features a cleaner design, and is much more robust than its
predecessor. Also, unlike GRUB Legacy it’s under active development.

Nervertheless, we’re aware that for a minority of users, upgrading is
not currently an option, because they rely on specific features of
GRUB Legacy that GRUB 2 doesn’t provide. For those users, GRUB Legacy
will continue being supported, at least up untill the Squeeze release.

Your friendly GRUB maintainers,

Robert Millan
Felix Zielcke

How to restore grub in Ubuntu/Debian based Linux distributions

cj2003 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:25:24 +0000

This tutorial explains how to restore GRUB, the default boot loader in Ubuntu/Debian distros. The best way is to boot from a Live CD. When you get to the desktop open a terminal and enter. More here

Reinstalling grub on an unbootable Debian system

cj2003 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:06:41 +0000

Fixing an unbootable computer after a failed grub installation can be a bit tricky. Here’s what I ended up doing. More here

First of all, boot the machine up and get access to the root partition:

Get a Debian installation CD for the same architecture (i.e. don’t use an i386 CD if your root partition is amd64). The distro version doesn’t matter too much: a lenny CD will boot squeeze/sid just fine.
Boot the install CD and select Rescue mode under Advanced options.

GRUB error 15 ( Debian/Ubuntu )

cj2003 — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:55:45 +0000

The reason for grub error 15 is very simple and so is the solution. The error gives you a message “Error 15: File not found!” simply because the file grub wants is not there. why? because grub is looking into a wrong device. More here

Error 17 is described here