[conspire] upgrade and grub

Paul Zander paulz at ieee.org
Thu Jun 21 23:12:25 PDT 2018


So I decided to try my laptop instead.  This would be the machine that was at CABAL a couple years back.  Because of the factory  installed win 8, the least difficult way to run "multi-boot" was to get an external USB drive for debian and leave the internal drive for win.

sources.list as previously discussed.  All went reasonably well until I get to an issue about grub.
First dialog box:The GRUB boot loader was previously installed to a disk that is no longer present or whose unique identifier has changed for some reason.It is important to make sure that the installed GRUB core image stays in sync with the GRUB modules and grub.cfg.    

There is a dialog box with choices: [ ] /dev/sda (1000204 MB; Toshiba ...                # that is the drive with windows [ ] /dev/sdb (1000204 MB; Storage Device) [ ]  - /dev/sdb1 (209715 MB ; / )                        # the root partion
All I can do is move the cursor between the three sets of [ ].   I tried to select the second or third choice, but the next dialog box warns me that I am not installing grub anywhere and do I really want to do that?
I did a little sleuthing in a different window.  grub.cfg is in /boot/grub/gparted tells me that /dev/sdb1 has the boot flag set.
Maybe my only issue is figuring out the dialog box.  





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