On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:50 -0700, Dan Hensley wrote: > I'm using FC6. This morning when I turned on my computer, it booted up > fine. I logged in fine. As soon as I logged in, I started Firefox. It > seemed to take a long time and never came up. So I tried launching > something else from the Gnome taskbar. It was unresponsive. I hit > CTRL-ALT-BKSP to log out of X. It went to a text screen and I saw lots > of messages about ata1 errors and non-responding ports and stuff like > that. After a long while things didn't change, so I turned off the > machine and tried booting again. The BIOS couldn't find my hard drive > (the only SATA drive on the system). I replaced the drive cable, and > after that the BIOS found the hard drive. > > When I try booting, I see the following grub message: > > GRUB > > At this point the computer hangs. > > So I booted up the rescue CD. I chrooted to my filesystem and ran > grub-install /dev/sda. I had to do this about a month ago (I have no > idea why), and that fixed the problem. But this time it did not fix the > problem. > > My question is, how can I get out of this bind? Is my hard drive > trashed, or just the boot record? Or is it something else? When I boot > off the rescue CD the hard drive contents appear fine. I just can't get > it to boot off my system. > > Nothing changed between yesterday except for yum-updating about 78 files > including firefox. > > Thanks for any help, > Dan Hello Dan, I'm fairly new to Linux so I can't offer any specific help but I can tell you what happened to my computer yesterday and how I was able to get it fixed. Maybe it will give you an idea for yours. I have 2 hard drives on my system. Drive 1 had FC4, drive 2 has FC6. I single boot to FC6 and have the drive with FC4 on mounted in my home folder so I can transfer files as needed to FC6. Yesterday, after updating about the same number of programs as you did, including a new kernel, the computer wanted to reboot, so I attempted a reboot and was stopped at the "GRUB" command as you were. I didn't try anything at that point. I used my FC6 DVD and booted to rescue mode (after looking at the disk with Knoppix & qtparted). From the rescue prompt, sh-3.xx#, I entered the grub command. At the grub prompt entered: root (hd1,0), then: setup (hd0), after grub finished, I rebooted and my normal boot screen appeared and I was able to boot to the new FC6 kernel. Fred
