On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:38:13 +1930, Patrick wrote: > I just ran "yum update" on my F10 x86_64 system, and the following > were installed: > > Dec 26 00:31:17 Updated: kdelibs3-3.5.10-3.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:31:17 Updated: audit-libs-1.7.10-1.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:31:24 Updated: kdelibs3-devel-3.5.10-3.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:31:24 Updated: kernel-firmware-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.noarch > Dec 26 00:31:39 Updated: 1:kplayer-0.7.0-1.20081211cvs.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:31:39 Updated: fuse-sshfs-2.2-1.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:31:41 Updated: kvm-74-10.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:31:53 Installed: kernel-devel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:32:01 Updated: kernel-doc-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.noarch > Dec 26 00:32:03 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:32:04 Updated: dstat-0.6.8-2.fc10.noarch > Dec 26 00:32:04 Updated: audit-libs-1.7.10-1.fc10.i386 > Dec 26 00:32:27 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:32:27 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:32:28 Updated: audit-1.7.10-1.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:32:28 Updated: audit-libs-python-1.7.10-1.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:32:29 Installed: 9:kdevelop-libs-3.5.4-1.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:32:41 Updated: 9:kdevelop-3.5.4-1.fc10.x86_64 > Dec 26 00:33:11 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64 > > Now my system won't boot. I just get the "GRUB " line, not even a > splash screen. Could this be caused by the kernel-firmware update? Search in bugzilla. It's a very old bug somewhere related to reinstalling GRUB as one part of /sbin/new-kernel-pkg run in a kernel pkg's post scriptlets. Under special circumstances, the newly installed GRUB doesn't work. Mission objective is to find out what must happen for GRUB reinstallation to fail like this, because it is usually not possible to reproduce this. It's not the kernel update that is wrong. Something at run-time has an influence on GRUB/grubby failing (perhaps as a result of bad install parameters given to them). > I > don't have Rawhide or even updates-testing enabled, so this is kind of > surprising in a presumably stable update. My video is onboard Intel > 945 if it matters. I can boot from a rescue disk so the hardware would > seem to be basically OK, but I don't know what to rescue ... Just reinstall GRUB. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines