I just resized and moved the partitions on my hard drive as my linux partition (FC5 x86_64) needed more space, and now startup stops with GRUB.
I'd only just completed about 1GB of updates with "yum update" as well!... sob...
When I switch on my computer, instead of the grub menu appearing, everything stops at a black screen with just the word
I'm guessing Grub may have been rearranged/is lost. Does Grub need reinstalling? How would I go about rescuing it? I know FC6 is about to come out, but I don't really have the time to reinstall everything, and am happy at the moment with FC5 (I was planning on waiting for FC7, which is why I'd just done a yum update)
The linux-rescue (on the fc cd) was having problems too... although typing "chroot" behaved as normal (outputting chroot --help), "chroot /mnt/sysimage" failed, saying
Quote:
$chroot /mnt/sysimage
chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: Exec format error
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Grub-install also failed; this time it couldn't find it, becuase chroot /mnt/sysimage failed, I guess. I can still browse my linux partition with cd /mnt/hda2 and ls, etc. though, so it is definitely mounted.
I don't know whether this is related, as it may be to do with the install-cd. I'm using FC5 i386 disc1. I've also tried the FC5 x86_64 dvd, but that wouldn't even enter rescue mode! As soon as the Fedora partition had been automatically mounted by anaconda, it unmounted everything and powered off!
(Fortunately I had a knoppix boot disc lying around, which is why I'm online at LQ now.)
All help appreciated, I need my computer working ASAP!