On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:23:29PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > 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 > (?). For what it's worth, I just hit the same problem on applying the new kernel (2200), and applied the same solution before searching the archives and finding this thread. I have not seen this problem with other updates. My /boot is not as full as yours (assuming yours is the standard ~100MB), and anyway I can't see how that would affect things (but I could be wrong). [root@dragon ~]# df /boot/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 79M 29M 47M 38% /boot Is there something peculiar to the way this kernel operates that caused this? I don't think this is due to grub, as I don't see any grub upgrades in my yum.log*. http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html Tony, have you filed a bug on this? I don't see one but may not have used the correct search keywords or some such. Yet another reason to keep a rescue CD handy. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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