Boot Problem

It looks like update-grub is not doing its job. I tried running it in terminal, and it flashed a couple of lines on the screen and exited. Any suggestions?

The File I changed was different than that in the link above. I changed "quiet splash" to "nosplash" in var/lib/ucf/cache/:etc:default:grub. A note in this file says to run update-grub after to update grub.cfg. I did this, but it didn't update that file (creation date didn't change).

I think that is just a backup, you need to change /etc/default/grub

...... it flashed a couple of lines on the screen and exited. Any suggestions?

Not without knowing what the error messages were, no.

You need to change the line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="put your options here

then run update-grub

It probably did not change grub.cfg because it could not find anything different from the last time it was run

regards

Thanks for the new info. I changed the /etc/default/grub file in the place you said. Update-grub still does not run. When I run it in terminal, I can just make out one of the words it flashes, which is "can't find." The file I'm running is usr/lib/grub-legacy/update-grub.
If I could step through update-grub, I might be able to see what's happening.

I ran bash on update-grub, and see it is looking for /boot/grub/device.map. Device.map doesn't exist there or anywhere else in the file system. Am I up a creek? Should I contact Sherline, or do you have other ideas? I could potentially modify grub.cfg directly, but it sounds dangerous to me.
Comments?

As always, thanks.

Bob

The file I'm running is usr/lib/grub-legacy/update-grub.

That confuses me, sounds like GRUB 1.9 not 2.0

Can you do a directory print of /boot

cd to it in a terminal and run something like

ls -ld $(find .) > contents.txt

and attach contents.txt that is generated.

I'm going to give this a rest. I have sent an email to Sherline asking them to resolve it. I'll update this thread when I have more news.

Bob