New FC6 upgrade just displays "grub" -

[Alastair Neil]

On 10/25/06, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
>
>                         *I just tried an upgrade rather than a complete
>                         reformat and install for the first time with
>                         Fedora anything.
>
>                         When it booted for the first time it stopped
>                         with "grub" printed to the screen and apparently
>                         sits there in its editor function waiting for
>                         some command.  I don't know what it wants or
>                         what to do next.
>
>                         FC6 is installed on an 80g sata drive replacing
>                         a working FC5 install.
>
>                         The "rescue disc" is not much help, probably
>                         because I don't know the right command?
>
>                         Any suggestions appreciated.
>
>                         Bob Goodwin*


sounds similar to problem I experienced.
I booted into rescue mode then issued a chroot /mnt/sysimage.
cd /boot/grub and check the device.map file. Assuming your system disk is
/dev/sda it should have:

(hd0) /dev/sda

if it doesn't, modify it so it does and run:

grub-install /dev/sda

Also check the /boot/grub.conf file and see if the various files are being
referenced to the correct device partition,  it should be (hd0,0) if your
system drive is the first device.

Hope this helps, Alastair
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