Re: Upgrade from RH8 to FC1 hangs with GRUB

From: Wolfgang (wolfgang_at_rpi.net.au)
Date: 01/21/04

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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:47:49 +1100

    On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:42, John Rumball wrote:
    > Recently I attempted an upgrade from RH8 to FC1 using Yum and
    > everything seemed to be going along well when I noticed yum complaining
    > that it needed X amount of disk space for various packages it was
    > trying to install. When the upgrade stopped, it was displaying a line
    > which said something like, "Testing transaction:".
    >
    > Upon checking the amount of free disk space I discovered that I had
    > only 300MB remaining and figured that this wouldn't be enough to allow
    > me to successfully complete the upgrade. So I shutdown my system and
    > used Norton Ghost to transfer my entire Linux installation (3
    > partitions) to a new 30GB drive.
    >
    > After booting the machine with the new hard drive, the system hangs
    > with the word GRUB in the top left corner of the screen.
    >
    > Any idea why this might have happened and what I can try to get past
    > this? Any comments or suggestions you may have will be appreciated.
    >
    > Thanks very much.
    >
    >
    > John Rumball
    > --
    >
    Boot your first Fedora CD and use it to boot to your hard drive
    (Recovery mode if I remember). Once there, cd to your /boot/grub
    directory. Then issue a 'grub-install /dev/hd? (hd? the drive you wish
    to boot from). Then reboot your system and it should work again.

    I found that Ghost sometimes, messes up the boot sector, so doing this
    usually fixes that problem.

    Wolf 

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