Re: Grub hangs after today's updates

Oliver Ruebenacker schrieb:
Dear friends,

A few minutes ago, I had a few automatic updates (including Kernel
updates) for my Fedora 9, then rebooted and now I can't boot upagain.
After BIOS, I see a black screen with only "GRUB" written on it, and
nothing else happens.

What to do?

Take care
Oliver

Find out, what you root partition is and from what device you're booting from.

Assuming, that you do not use dual booting and have only fedora on your machine and assuming, that you're booting from the device /dev/sda here are the instructions:

Download a rescue boot image and burn it on a cd. Download from this mirror for example:

http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/images/boot.iso

Boot from that cd and choose "rescue system" at the boot prompt.

It's very likely, that the rescue routine will mount your system on the directory /mnt/sysimage.

As instructed by the user interface run this command:
chroot /mnt/sysimage

From the point on you work in the same environment/os installation as you normally boot directly.

Run this command:
grub-install /dev/sda

Type "exit"

then type
reboot

remove the cd from your drive and you will possibly be able to boot from hard disk again.

greets Boris



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