Today my previously working FC5 Linux won't boot. I see the word "GRUB" alone on the screen, which IIRC means that grub can't find stage 2 (or stage 1.5). Yesterday I yum updated to kernel.i686 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5, along with pango.i386 1.12.4-3 and then -4, bind, caching-nameserver, anacron, and gzip. Actually I don't see how /any/ of that could cause this issue. This is the first time booting with the 2200 kernel. FC5 boots by chaining from NTLDR's boot.ini, using a file made from the boot sector of my boot partition (/dev/hde3 or (hd0,2)). WinXP still boots, btw. /boot is EXT3 on a primary partition, hde3, labeled /boot, 1K blocks (I have not booted with the 2200 kernel). (There is only one hard disk, hde, with nothing on hda or hdb, while hdc and hdd are optical drives.) /boot is 87% full. e2fsck /dev/hde3 is clean. FC5 is installed on LVM2, though that doesn't matter until grub loads. FC5 is on VolGroup00/LogVol02, FC3 is on VolGroup00/LogVol00, and 1 GB swap is on VolGroup00/LogVol01. I booted from the rescue CD, mounted R/W, chrooted, and (re-)ran grub-install, which said it succeeded. /boot and /boot/grub and /boot/grub/menu.lst look OK to me, but FC5 still won't boot. What should I try next? -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
