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If you are using ext3 in F10, you'll need to use the F10 grub. Else you'll have to force the inode size to 128 bytes rather than the (new) default of 256.
Have a read of this for some background.
I'm definitely using ext2fs - I'm not really sure I understand the inode size thing - would I have to change the size when creating a new partition on the drive? I am also definitely using GRUB 0.97.
I have managed to kind of boot the OS by changing the partition that is loaded in GRUB. When I say kind of boot the OS I mean it starts the loading process, telling me that the services are starting (this is happening in a sort of command line interface without the pretty F9/10 GUI) saying that though it doesn't load completely so I can't type any commands in directly but I can ssh into the machine and do some things from there...
Ahh sorry - my bad. I just re-read your initial post, and saw it was an upgrade. For some reason I thought you were dual-boot using the F9 grub.
You can probably safely ignore all that I said above.
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I have managed to kind of boot the OS by changing the partition that is loaded in GRUB.
You want to explain that some more - in detail ?.
Sounds like an X issue - but you should still drop to a (nash ?) shell that allows you to do (limited if nash) commands.
More detail needed
Sorry, forget that bit about changing the partition that's loaded through GRUB, I swapped the port the HDD was plugged into and now GRUB does what it is supposed to.
I think you are correct when you in that it is an X issue. I have a couple of "screenshots" (photos taken on my phone) that might help explain it better.
Photo.jpg shows the services starting and photo (4).jpg shows where the computer hangs.
Again, I can't type commands directly but I can SSH into the box to do stuff.
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