How in a guest VM without starting VMWare?

No joke: I will explain:

I have just completed an upgrade between versions LTS of Ubuntu (12.04 and 14.04). The newly improved 14.04 VM Ubuntu does not start: he let me on a black screen with a cursor that is not admissible.

I checked the competent bodies of Ubuntu and the problem seems to be a matter of core. There is a patch available - but I can't start VMWare to apply it.

So there must be a side road in the virtual machine that I can use to make the necessary adjustments, so I can get the VM at startup. Be kind enough to enlighten me!

I'm pretty comfortable with the command line Unix on Mac.

System: 2009 MacBook Pro, Fusion 7.1.3, OS X 10.11.4

Hello

An inadmissible cursor blinking on a black screen immediately at startup usually means that your installation of grub is - in good English-b0rked.

You are comfortable in linux, the steps are roughly:

-boot from a live CD ubuntu

-mount the drive, chroot and run grub - install.

-restart

As 'comfortable in linux' usually means something else, thankfully I got the written steps of a previous event:

This assumes that your drive is/dev/sda1

# Mount root partition:
sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt # /dev/sdXY is your root partition, e.g. /dev/sda1

# If you have a separate boot partition you'll need to mount it also:
sudo mount /dev/sdYY /mnt/boot

# Mount your virtual filesystems:
for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /run; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done

# Chroot
sudo chroot /mnt

At this point, fdisk-l should work and see your drive as usual.

If Yes, then you can run:

grub-install /dev/sda

At this point, you can restart and your grub should be recovered.

--

Wil

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