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On 04/12/2021 13:31, Julian Hall wrote: > On 04/12/2021 13:21, Julian Hall wrote: >> On 04/12/2021 13:09, maceion@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> On 04/12/2021 11:25, Julian Hall wrote: >>>> BTW what's the problem? I find grub's rescue prompt to give me bad >>>> days. >>> Thank you for courtesy of asking about problem. >>> No problem at present, other than slowness booting & shut down (old >>> rusting iron external USB HDD) Not sufficient to annoy me yet. >>> >>> I have never found out how to use GRUB's rescue prompt. >> Me either, that's why seeing it gives me bad days *lol* >>> So then I either reboot >>> Choice of normal or: old working system as normal or 'safe boot' >>> OpenSUSE always has a boot option 'safe boot' which loads the drivers >>> and programs in a different order from normal boot and has never failed >>> to start system. >>> >>> If it did, I would just do a fresh install. >>> KISS is my main way. >> >> That or a GRUB Recovery boot disk - note to self: I must find mine! >> Often mine finds GRUB errors and rebuilds it with whatever entries it >> found. >> >> Julian > > PS https://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/ might be worth a > look. I'll have to do it later after a reinstall of Windows 7 - as this > is a dual-boot PC and Windows will overwrite GRUB with its own bootloader. > > Julian > Ta. Thanks for link. -- Regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq