Re: Debian 12 not booting after upgrade
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 03:38:20AM +0000, xuser wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2025, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 May 2025 02:51:20 +0000 xuser wrote:
> >
> > > After an libreoffice upgrade on may 7, My debian system does not
> > > boot, and just shows the word "GRUB" on a black screen.
> >
> > I doubt it was the libreoffice upgrade that did it. It might have been
> > something else that was upgraded at the same time.
> >
> > If you can boot the netinst CD image, you should be able to run the
> > rescue facility on it. Use that to run update-grub, and try again.
> >
> I tries that and also tried re-running grub-install
> and it still did not work.
My bet is on: The grub-install was done to wrong boot disk. (And "wrong
boot disk" being not the boot disk.)
> I installed debian 12.2 along side the other one and now it works
Thanks for reporting back. Yes, a re-install gets a Linux system
back to a working Linux system. For what it is worth: Installing Linux
did learn me a lot.
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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Silence is hard to parse
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