<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Suvayu Ali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fatkasuvayu%2Blinux@gmail.com">fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 05/03/10 09:15 PM, Henrik Frisk wrote:<br>
> all updates" without checking what it was. I then left off. When I came back<br>
> the screen had frozen. I did a forced reboot but now the computer hangs<br>
> after the GRUB screen. There are no messages that I am able to intercept,<br>
> just a black screen with a cursor in the top left corner.<br>
><br>
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</div>Most likely you just need a grub reinstall. Try booting with a LiveCD or<br>
a rescue disc (your Fedora 11 DVD will suffice for this purpose).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your quick answer. Oddly, in the mean time, I had tried to boot the machine under OS X (I have a dual boot setup managed by rEFFIT) and the OS X startup hung just like the Fedora. So I booted the machine from an Apple Systems disc and ran a harddisk tool only to find out that everything was OK with the OSX partition on the disk holding three partitions (one for osx, one two for Fedora). After this OS X miraculously booted AND Fedora booted as well. Makes me think there is something funky about the disk?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyways, thanks for the help, and how do i do a grub reinstall should I have to do it in the future? I boot it from a cd or dvd, and...</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks everyone else too for a great job with Fedora!</div>
<div><br></div><div>best,</div><div><br></div><div>/Henrik</div></div>