On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 21:09, PCDEBB | Fedora-list wrote: > 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 I had this problem before. And what I ended up doing was to boot from the Boot Floppy. Then go into /boot/grub directory and run grub-install /dev/hda. And that fixed that grub problem for me. Wolf
