Bug#586621: Patch

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 12:24:43PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On a probably unrelated note, when I boot, grub displays an
> 
>  error: file not found
> 
> error, dumps me into rescue mode, and I can't figure out how to
> proceed (ls works but all insmod commands fail with the same error).
> I assume this is unrelated, but I may be wrong (and would love for
> help).

This may be due to the free error that M. Vefa Bicakci pointed out; that
could have left you with a nonsense prefix (you can check by running
'set' in rescue mode).  Failing that, this node in the GRUB manual has
some general advice for this situation:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#GRUB-only-offers-a-rescue-shell

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]