GRUB _

santiagosilva · 12-05-2008, 05:57 PM

Hello,

I just installed Fedora 9. When i rebooted it all worked fine the first time. then i did the whole
yum update

it upgraded for about 2 hours it was done. i used the computer and then turned it off.
this morning when i went to turn the computer on, all it says is

GRUB _

and that's it.
It won't keep booting no matter what i do.

anyone have any idea what could be wrong?

thanx
//s

fair_is_fair · 12-05-2008, 06:13 PM

Two hours of updates. Was there a kernel upgrade too? You may have to reinstall grub reflecting the new kernel.

santiagosilva · 12-05-2008, 06:14 PM

honestly i didn't pay attention.
it was something like 1100 packages updating.

to reinstall the grub, how would i do that in this case?

//s

syg00 · 12-05-2008, 06:23 PM

Why not (current) Fedora 10 ? - at least the updates would have been less.

The grub prompt like that is a "hard loop" message. Usually means something like it can't find a (any) disk to boot. Can you boot into your disk install from the Fedora CD/DVD ?. It may have an option to re-install grub, else just (presuming no LVM/mdadm involvement) "grub-install /dev/sda" should work.

santiagosilva · 12-05-2008, 06:25 PM

I think that computer would be to slow to run F10 . even F7 was already a bit shifty.

it just seems weird that it would update stuff, and then for some reason mess up the loader... I'll try your tips now..

//s

santiagosilva · 12-05-2008, 06:30 PM

i get the error:

sh-3.2# grub-install /dev/sda
/sbin/grub: Not found.

sh-3.2# _

do i have to create another grub file or something?

santiagosilva · 12-05-2008, 06:46 PM

i tried this which i found on another page:

Originally Posted by jens View Post
Reinstalling Grub is probably easier:

*Boot your Fedora Rescue or installation CD (select "Rescue installed system" or boot with "linux rescue")
*Type: chroot /mnt/sysimage
*Type: grub-install /dev/hda (use /dev/sda for sata)

that seemed to work.
but his problem sounded different to me than what mine was...

anyways...

thanks for your help

//Santiago