On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Don Levey <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My F9 laptop won't boot this morning - I go through the POST, but when I > ordinarily get to the "Hit Enter for options" boot screen, all I get is: > > GRUB > > at the top left of my screen. Does this mean I need to reinstall grub and > the MBR? I can access the HD via a liveCD, and everything *seems* OK from > what I can tell. Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > -Don > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Hi Don! If it were me I would start by re-booting - loading the factory CMOS defaults - carefully checking the boot order (make sure intended disk on top!) and then a "save and exit" so going into the boot process with "fresh" CMOS parameters of known characteristics. Your system seems to have a major change but I have been thrown off many times by the old CMOS battery or dirty CMOS battery connector. Frankly on some of my old machines I make it a practice to load the CMOS fresh (factory parameters) at boot. If your laptop is newer you may need to change the battery (sometimes called the "reserve" battery and sometimes simply the backup battery but more accurately the CMOS battery). If I had problems past this I would boot with a live CD and snoop around with parted or fdisk to see how the parameter table was doing and check that the Grub files were in thier proper places (grub.conf in /boot/grub -- The proper kernel image ( e.g. /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic is my current Ubuntu kernel image and /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic is my current ramdisk image referenced in my /boot/grub/menu.lst (/boot/grub/grub.conf in Fedora). The mentioned stanzas from the menu.lst (grub.conf) file on my current machine: title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=860b7b47-19cd-48e9-9757-c00ace4a97f7 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic quiet title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=860b7b47-19cd-48e9-9757-c00ace4a97f7 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic title Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+ root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin quiet ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST If all were there and looked OK I would then look up on the web how to use dd to copy and then use hexedit (or simliar hex dumper editor) to look at the actual MBR and probaby first sector. Google "MBR thestarman" for lots of details. Let us know - sounds interesting! Good Hunting! Tod -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
