At 6:21 PM -0400 10/17/06, Tony Nelson wrote: >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, ... >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)). ... >/boot is EXT3 ... /boot is 87% full. >I ... (re-)ran grub-install, which said it succeeded. >What should I try next? After reading "info grub" "* Images ::", which mentions that stage 1 "just knows" where to find the next stage, I copied the (new) bootsector to a file and replaced the chaining file used by NTLDR. FC5 now boots. I don't know why the next stage moved (probably e2fs_stage1_5), but it may be related to installing the new kernel and to the partition approaching full (?). -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
