After the updates that have come out, Friday though yesterday, I finally did a reboot. Whe4n it boots, the word "grub" pops up on the screen and that's as far as it goes. I assume its toast but what caused it? I can't say what the updates are since the laptop is now dead as my grandmother.
Thanks,
Arch
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:33:53AM -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
After the updates that have come out, Friday though yesterday, I finally did a reboot. Whe4n it boots, the word “grub” pops up on the screen and that’s as far as it goes.
You likely mean "grub> " prompt. Right?
I assume its toast
Most likely this assumption is wrong although in an order to boot you may need to type manually commands you are normally have in grub.conf - like "root ...", "kernel ..." and "initrd ..." followed by "boot". grub normally expands what you typed, when asked, so this is not as bad as it sounds. You can start by typing "help". Once you booted you may fix grub configuration.
It appears that grub got installed but it is unable to find its configuration files.
but what caused it?
Good question. You should have in /root files like 'syslog' and 'anaconda.log' from your installation attempt and there could be clues there. Another option is to boot "rescue" and peek at what you saved.
Michal
"You likely mean "grub> " prompt. Right?"
Nope....its just the word "GRUB" sitting there all by itself....its not blinking, you can't type anything, ctrl-c, nothing...it just sits there. You can see disk activity for a few seconds after it pops up then nothing.
10-4 on all of the rest you said.
Arch
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michal Jaegermann Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:46 PM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases Subject: Re: After updates, won't boot past the word "grub" with F9
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:33:53AM -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
After the updates that have come out, Friday though yesterday, I finally did a reboot. Whe4n it boots, the word "grub" pops up on the screen and that's as far as it goes.
You likely mean "grub> " prompt. Right?
I assume its toast
Most likely this assumption is wrong although in an order to boot you may need to type manually commands you are normally have in grub.conf - like "root ...", "kernel ..." and "initrd ..." followed by "boot". grub normally expands what you typed, when asked, so this is not as bad as it sounds. You can start by typing "help". Once you booted you may fix grub configuration.
It appears that grub got installed but it is unable to find its configuration files.
but what caused it?
Good question. You should have in /root files like 'syslog' and 'anaconda.log' from your installation attempt and there could be clues there. Another option is to boot "rescue" and peek at what you saved.
Michal
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:24:52PM -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
"You likely mean "grub> " prompt. Right?"
Nope....its just the word "GRUB" sitting there all by itself...
Ah, there is a big difference between "grub" and "GRUB". You may also see only a part of the later and/or the last letter may start to repeat itself. Some part of initial grub loading failed although where this is documented I have no idea.
At this moment you are indeed hosed although rebooting "rescue" and reinstalling grub may get you out.
Michal
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