I'm using FC6. This morning when I turned on my computer, it booted up
fine. I logged in fine. As soon as I logged in, I started Firefox. It
seemed to take a long time and never came up. So I tried launching
something else from the Gnome taskbar. It was unresponsive. I hit
CTRL-ALT-BKSP to log out of X. It went to a text screen and I saw lots
of messages about ata1 errors and non-responding ports and stuff like
that. After a long while things didn't change, so I turned off the
machine and tried booting again. The BIOS couldn't find my hard drive
(the only SATA drive on the system). I replaced the drive cable, and
after that the BIOS found the hard drive.
When I try booting, I see the following grub message:
GRUB
At this point the computer hangs.
So I booted up the rescue CD. I chrooted to my filesystem and ran
grub-install /dev/sda. I had to do this about a month ago (I have no
idea why), and that fixed the problem. But this time it did not fix the
problem.
My question is, how can I get out of this bind? Is my hard drive
trashed, or just the boot record? Or is it something else? When I boot
off the rescue CD the hard drive contents appear fine. I just can't get
it to boot off my system.
Nothing changed between yesterday except for yum-updating about 78 files
including firefox.
Thanks for any help,
Dan
