I recently purchased a used netbook that I have been playing with. It has an 8g ssd with Windows installed. I bought a set of three thumbdrives and am using them to try other distros. I have Debian stable on one and testing on another. I thought I would put siduction on one. Everything went as it should and I booted up the netbook. I logged out and did ctrl-altF1, signed in as root, init 3, apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade. I did forget to do the apt-get clean. I then rebooted. When it started back up I got the word GRUB and a blinking line (cursor), nothing else. My question is do I reinstalled or can I repair the grub menu? or any other suggestions on what to do to avoid having the same problem when I do a dist-upgrade.
SPECKS:
Acer Aspire One, dual core atom cpu, 8g ssd, 32 bit
Installed siduction 12.2.0~rc1 Riders on the Storm - xfce - (201211192035) on the thumb drive.
Used a live-CD 32 bit and installed to the thumbdrive as if it were a hdd.
I had done this previously with aptodsid and had do problems doing it this way. Again, this time everything went well, and booted up when I put the drive in the netbook.
Any help appreciated.
john