[ale] grub rescue

[David Tomaschik]

What's your partitioning like?  You said you restored the partition from
clonezilla, so I'm guessing the part of grub placed in the MBR was
corrupted/bugged/etc.  If that was the case, even a restored partition
wouldn't fix it, but reinstalling would.

David


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>wrote:

>  anyone have any insight into grub-rescue??
> well I had an interesting evening yesterday.. I spent most of the day
> trying to do an upgrade to (Debian) jessie from wheezy. after all was said
> & done & I rebooted, I got a black screen. tried the rescue mode, same
> thing. So I tried to restore using my clonezilla backup. after restoring
> the partition & rebooting I got an error and it dropped me to grub-rescue
> prompt, with an error like: error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mpp'
> not found grub rescue>. No help, "?" all I could do was ls. Not having a
> computer nearby to google, I just re-installed wheezy. I have linux
> installed on multiple partitions, on both of my internal drives, and also
> Windows 7.
> I have restored before using clonezilla, so I'm not exactly sure what I
> did different this time, or how to get it booted..
>
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