F18 grub hang with blinking cursor after kernel update

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 02/27/2013 10:44 AM, Mike Zingale wrote:
> yes, I did
>
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
> then
>
> grub2-install --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda
>
> no issues reported, but it doesn't fix things.
>
> In rescue mode, I also tried uninstalling are reinstalling the kernel,
> and no change.

I think that grub2-mkconfig must be done after grub2-install...

Germán.

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:22 PM, "Germán A. Racca"
> <german.racca at gmail.com <mailto:german.racca at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/25/2013 03:03 PM, Mike Zingale wrote:
>
>         I just did a yum update and got the 3.7.9 kernel for F18.  Upon
>         reboot,
>         the grub screen never appears, no prompt or anything, just a
>         blinking
>         cursor in the upper left.  The system just hangs there.
>
>         I booted the install disk, rescued, did a chroot to the system
>         image and
>         remade grub2.cfg and reinstalled grub2 (with grub2-install), and
>         still
>         the same issue.  I even yum removed the kernel that was just
>         installed
>         and redid grub2, and again, nothing.
>
>         Any ideas on how to fix grub on this system?
>
>
>     Hi Mike,
>
>     By "redid grub" you mean "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg"?
>
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