On 1/9/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 4:00 PM -0600 1/9/07, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >After doing a 'yum update' last night and shutting down the machine, >my machine failed to start back up properly this morning: the BIOS >appears to load without issue, and then a screen with the text "GRUB >_" comes up. And nothing else occurs. ... I see that you installed a kernel, that you use the default partitioning, and that you dual-boot MSWindows. I had a mysterious problem on my dual-booted machine after installing a kernel, where Grub could not find stage 2. It turns out that my system had been a hostage to fortune for a long time, as I had made a copy of the /boot partition's bootsector to a file to use from MSWindow's NTLDR's boot.ini, and had not updated that file after an upgrade (and a new grub install). If you're booting directly from grub without using NTLDR, this should not be your problem. --
I do not do that. Grub chainloads to NTLDR, per Anaconda's default setup -- Fedora Core 6 and proud
