Re: Grub error

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:05 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am sorry to annonce the bug in grub:
>
> I use debian distro and I cannot finish installation of the actual version 8.4
> When the system restart, it falls into the grub rescue > saying:
>
> error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found
>
> After some googling and after I tried lot of suggested repair advice I found 
> following:
>
> the next commands give:
> grub rescue > ls
> (hd0) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0)
>
> grub rescue > ls  (hd0,msdos1)
> hd0,msdos1): Filesystem is ext2
>
> grub rescue > ls  (hd0,msdos1)/
> ./ ../ lost+found/  etc/  bin/   dev/  home/  lib/     mnt/  proc/ run   srv/ 
>  tmp/  var/
> boot/  lib64/  media/  opt/  root/  sbin/  sys/  usr/  vmlinuz  initrd.img
>
> But command:
> grub rescue > ls  (hd0,msdos1)/boot/
>

Error message refers to /grub, not to /boot/grub. If /boot is on
separate partition, /boot in root is expected to be empty.

> gives nothing, the same for any other root subdir
>
> Can you have a look at this problem?
>

So far there is no obvious bug in grub to look at. General questions
about grub and system configuration are better sent to
address@hidden