Hi Deb: This usually is related to changes in the number of disk partitions. May be you have created/deleted partitions during upgrade? Please, are you able to send the actual partition table? ( use fdisk /dev/<your_disk> an 'p' option ) waiting your reply David Ballester Montolio Responsable Sistemas y Comunicaciones Kern Pharma, S.L. www.kernpharma.com "My hardware is like Air Conditioned, runs better with windows closed" GNU! |---------+------------------------------> | | "PCDEBB | | | | Fedora-list" | | | <fedora@xxxxxxxxxx>| | | Enviado por: | | | fedora-list-admin@r| | | edhat.com | | | | | | | | | 03/12/2003 11:09 | | | Por favor, responda| | | a fedora-list | | | | |---------+------------------------------> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | Para: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> | | cc: | | Asunto: Installed with disastrous results | >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| I decided to upgrade my Redhat 9 to Fedora Core lastnite (12/2/03 9:30pm). Install seemed well until I rebooted. I simply got the word "GRUB" with a blinking cursor. No selections, couldn't type anything at all. Thankfully I created a boot disk, so I was able to boot into Fedora. Installing grub was a disaster. It is now 5am, and I just now reached my windows desktop after searching all over for a bootable windows cd to fix my mbr. The install seemed so simple that even I could do it, but no such thing. Thru the night it went from bad to worse to where the internet wouldn't even work anymore. I went to many forums and asked around for help but got no help. I went back and did a fresh install of linux, told it not to install any bootloader, but I still got the grub screen. I went to various how-to's to try an configure grub, no luck. I tried everything I can think of until it literally brought me down to tears. I love being a tech chick and I really want to get into this linux thing, but this experience has been very discouraging. At this point I'm considering removing all traces of linux off this system for good, but I don't want to go out like that. I really want to know how to fix the problem and learn from it. At this point I can still boot from the floppy I think, but I'm scared to even reboot my system now, and I'd rather have a menu choice to boot from instead of a floppy. (floppies tend to find their way "reformatted" around here) Can someone please steer a nice lady like myself in the right direction and start over and fix my boot now? Can I even edit my boot.ini in windows? Thank you very much Deb -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list