On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 08:04 -0500, Mark C. Allman wrote: > I saw the same thing about a week ago. The problem was the master boot > record (MBR). This is how I fixed it (note that I backed everything up > one more time before doing this). > > <disclaimer>Please note that this rebuilds the MBR so it's not to be > tried without understanding what you're doing</disclaimer> > > 1. Boot from a rescue disk to "repair" the system. > 2. Let the start-up process find and mount your filesystem. > 3. Chroot to /mnt/sysimage > 4. Look at /etc/grub.conf to both be sure it looked OK and to > look for the "root (hd0,0)" or "root (hd0,1)" or whatever line. > 5. Run "grub" > 5a. type in "root (hd0,0)", which is what I found in grub.conf > 5b. type "setup (hd0)" > 6. Rebooted the system and it all started up. > > Take a look at the page: > http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/howto_restore_mbr_grub.php > I saw it as well on a Dell M65 laptop. I did the same thing as Mark suggest, used rescue mode to restore grub and everything has been fine since. Did not see anything during the upgrade to suggest I there was a problem. Brian -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
