On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:42, John Rumball wrote: > Recently I attempted an upgrade from RH8 to FC1 using Yum and > everything seemed to be going along well when I noticed yum complaining > that it needed X amount of disk space for various packages it was > trying to install. When the upgrade stopped, it was displaying a line > which said something like, "Testing transaction:". > > Upon checking the amount of free disk space I discovered that I had > only 300MB remaining and figured that this wouldn't be enough to allow > me to successfully complete the upgrade. So I shutdown my system and > used Norton Ghost to transfer my entire Linux installation (3 > partitions) to a new 30GB drive. > > After booting the machine with the new hard drive, the system hangs > with the word GRUB in the top left corner of the screen. > > Any idea why this might have happened and what I can try to get past > this? Any comments or suggestions you may have will be appreciated. > > Thanks very much. > > > John Rumball > -- > Boot your first Fedora CD and use it to boot to your hard drive (Recovery mode if I remember). Once there, cd to your /boot/grub directory. Then issue a 'grub-install /dev/hd? (hd? the drive you wish to boot from). Then reboot your system and it should work again. I found that Ghost sometimes, messes up the boot sector, so doing this usually fixes that problem. Wolf
