Re: Cannot boot after the last updates


On Aug 16, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Craig White wrote:

On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 10:31 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
On Aug 16, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Craig White
<craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After the last updates were installed, I cannot boot in my
machine: it
stops when the line

GRUB

appears on the screen. Any ideas how to repair the problem? I am
running F9.
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probably too much to ask people to search the archives...

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-August/ msg01404.html

I do not have any rescue/installation disk. Can it be done with
Knoppix? If so, how? I have tried

# grub-install /dev/sda
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
#

Well, let's hope that means grub left the drive alone.

How did you install?

And, if you've booted the box under knoppix, can you mount the
partitions with knoppix?
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most importantly, he would have to chroot to get it to
install/find /boot


Heh. I'd be likely to boot knoppix to download and burn the rescue CD image. I always seem to take the long route around.

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