Installing an OS over the existing OS

[Phil]

On 20/2/23 05:16, Ian Bruntlett wrote:

Thank you Ian,

This is really an academic exercise because the laptop is basically 
useless and I'm going to toss it into the bin but I'd still like to get 
it going before doing so just out of curiosity.


>
>
>     "ls" anything at the grub rescue prompt gives the same result
>     "unknown
>     filesystem"
>
What I've written is not true. "ls (hd0, msdos0)", if I remember 
correctly, shows that the the format of the disc is ext2. I have 
replaced all instances of "hd1" to hd0" in the grub.cfg but I'm still 
greeted with the grub rescue prompt.


> An absolute file name resembles a Unix absolute file name, using ‘/’ 
> for the directory separator (not ‘\’ as in DOS). One example is 
> ‘(hd0,1)/boot/grub/grub.cfg’.

I had already tried that and the result is "unknown filesystem". I'll 
try it again in case I'd made a typing error.

Thank you Ian for the links, more reading.

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Regards,
Phil
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