So I was trying to install Debian Jessie beta 2 (Debian 8) and was not really paying attention what I was doing. It ended up that I don't grub installed.So who do you fix this? As usual in Linux/Debian there so many ways to do this but below are the steps that I have done: Boot the machine using the boot media, I was using debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso and yes I am using VirtualBox. Select Advanced options | Rescue mode. Follow text based wizard, change the values as you see fit. I did English for Select a language . Then United States for Select your location . American English for Configure the keyboard . Used debian in Configure the network - note that this does not have to match to the machine that you want to recover. Left blank for the domain. Then for Configure the clock I selected Central . In Enter rescue mode , I have selected /dev/sda1 as I only have one SATA HD and I know that the first partition was my root. You probably to make guesses if you wan
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