On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:42:54 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:34:30 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> --- On Sun, 12/28/08, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > [....] >>> Seems to me I better try "upgrading" F10 to >>> itself; and if that >>> doesn't do it, maybe yum will work in rescue ... [...] >> If you are afraid to do this, then use the trick/hack to let it upgrade >> itself and it should fix the booting issue by reinstalling grub. I >> know that it is a pain, but as long as you get back your linux >> partition back and it works, then go right ahead and do it. > > I did the latter (two or three times), on the principle of trying > the easiest or most familiar thing first. Updating the boot settings did > no good, but when I told it (tremulously emulating the amorous > porcupines!), it did acknowledge the existence of another OS (for the > first time since the troubles began), and let me rename it. > > I just edited /boot/grub/grub.conf, correcting the entry for XP > to what it used to be, having carefully saved that *elsewhere* before > all this. > > I also commented out "hiddenmenu" and raised the timeout from 5 > to 15 seconds; I'll try booting to XP shortly. > > Then I noticed something *very* odd: all the kernel names include > "fc9"! And sure enough, so does uname -a. All this despite the fact it > was my F*10* DVD, which has succeeded on at least five other machines! I was wrong again : there are F10 options in grub.conf after all; I noticed them only on the stage 2 screen, but they're in the config file, too, all right. They're *after* the F9 choices! Three of them : two Fedora-PAE, and one Fedora-base. (What *are* these things?? At the moment I'm in the base -- and uname -a confirms that it's F10.) And XP still boots. MAY IT REMAIN SO -- and many, many thanks for all the help! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 9 & 10; Alpine 2.00, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
