On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:50 -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: > I ran up2date and installed the newest kernel on my machine, but now I > am unable to boot my computer at all. I set the newest kernel as the > default in the bootloader, and rebooted the machine. I got the > following error before it even got to the GRUB screen: > > SYSLINUX 2.11 2004-08-16 Boot failed > > On the off chance that this might have been a problem with the new > kernel, I booted the computer from the FC3 rescue disk, and switched the > default kernel back to the older one, but that of course did not work. > > Any thoughts? This one's got me stumped. > -- > Slainte, > Richard S. Crawford (http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K) > Fitness blog: http://www.mossroot.com/02h > The Literate Penguin: http://www.mossroot.com/lp > "You can't trust your judgement if your imagination is > out of focus." --Mark Twain > > > Richard, Looks to me like you accidentally SysLinux'd your HDD. Re-install GRUB on your HDD, usually to the MBR to overwrite SysLinux. Good Luck! Best, Steve
