On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:11 -0900, Fred Erickson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:50 -0700, Dan Hensley wrote: > > > > When I try booting, I see the following grub message: > > > > GRUB > > > > At this point the computer hangs. > > > > My question is, how can I get out of this bind? Is my hard drive > > trashed, or just the boot record? Or is it something else? When I boot > > off the rescue CD the hard drive contents appear fine. I just can't get > > it to boot off my system. > > > Yesterday, after updating about the same number of programs as you did, > including a new kernel, the computer wanted to reboot, so I attempted a > reboot and was stopped at the "GRUB" command as you were. > > I didn't try anything at that point. I used my FC6 DVD and booted to > rescue mode (after looking at the disk with Knoppix & qtparted). From > the rescue prompt, sh-3.xx#, I entered the grub command. At the grub > prompt entered: root (hd1,0), then: setup (hd0), after grub finished, I > rebooted and my normal boot screen appeared and I was able to boot to > the new FC6 kernel. I think I ended up doing about the same thing you did (grub-install versus going into grub), but I'll give your suggestion a try. Except that I'll have to use root (hd0,0). But my try had no effect this time. I think there is something seriously screwed up with the FC6 update system, because this has happened to me twice in a month. I ordered a new hard drive that should arrive tomorrow in case it's a hardware problem. My motherboard or BIOS may also have something to do with it, but I'm not sure. Right now my system is up and running because I built a boot floppy. But I see another kernel update waiting to be installed. I hesitate to download it because I don't know what kind of mess it will make with my system. Dan
