Disaster recovery help sought

[MR ZenWiz]

Scratch that - I poked around a little and now it's booting all right.

Yoik, though.  More than a minor pain....


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:04 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to upgrade my Xubunutu from 12.04 to 14.04 and the system came
> up in grub-rescue, unable to find a kernel image.
>
> Being as how there appears to be no help facility in grub-rescue, I
> couldn't find a command of any use, so I decided to install from the
> DVD instead.
>
> The install appeared to go fine, but when the system rebooted, it came
> up with the grub menu, then the screen went blank and stayed blank,
> with nothing at all visible.
>
> In partial anticipation of this possibility, I copied everything on /
> to a backup directory, but when I tried to restore this, I could not
> get grub-install to work - it complained about missing /cow, which I
> don't recall ever seeing before.  This was from the "Try Xubuntu"
> option from the DVD.
>
> Assuming that I can copy back the files from the backup directory to
> the intended root disk, how do I tell the system (grub?) what and
> where to boot from?
>
> I used to know this stuff, but 12.04 was stable as a rock for the last
> two years, so I'm a bit rusty here.
>
> Thanks.
>
> MR
> .