--- On Sun, 12/28/08, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Catch-22 : NO JOY > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 9:22 AM > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:57:46 -0600, Seann Clark wrote: > [....] > > Ok, Grub can be awesome, and it can be the suck. The > best way, that > > doesn't take a giant amount of effort, is to read > the site first, > > download and burn the iso, and run as you read it. > > > > http://www.supergrubdisk.org/index.php > > > > This has helped me with a lot of Grub related issues, > including ones > > that the IRC room didn't seem to have a handle on > (Where the F7 Rescue > > ISO didn't see the LVM and grub set up, F8 saw it, > but would toast the > > F7 system) and using that I fixed the Grub issues I > got (It wasn't as > > pretty as Grub_ it was no o/s found at all issues, but > same ballpark, > > with stage 1 grub loading from what I have read on > this). > > Well, I've now moused around that site, reading > everything that > seemed even faintly hopeful. > > I regret to say it was worse that I thought. The most I > could do > anywhere was to read the words -- without getting the > faintest glimmer > what they were about. The writer(s) could hardly take more > savvy for > granted -- savvy I don't have and probably will never > even approach. > > It happens that I began life as a pure mathematician (BA > 1961); > and it was SOP among my contemporaries to skip courses -- > you got the > book on the material next in sequence after what you were > taking, studied > it on your own, and got the prof's permission to skip a > prerequisite by > showing him you already knew the stuff. > > Once I took a good look at a book two or three levels > ahead; this > was like that -- a sheer blank wall. > > Seems to me I better try "upgrading" F10 to > itself; and if that > doesn't do it, maybe yum will work in rescue ... You skipped courses, I can say that I skipped homework(s), and thankfully I made it through only having to repeat about 3 courses in Mathematics. I am now a teacher and I guess not liking homework myself I don't assign homework to my students. I tell them that if they did not finish in classtime, then it is their fault and that it becomes "homefun", but not homework. > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert > Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. > > -- Beartooth, What Marc recommended is that you download the iso http://www.supergrubdisk.org/index.php and burn it to a disk. Boot your computer with it and it will let you boot your partitions that you have. It works most if not all of the time, when you see GRUB__ it has happened to me and I have used it and/or the RipLinux another liveCD with that ability. After I checked that everything was well(I could boot to my linux partition), then I booted with Fedora DVD and used rescue mode and used # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda and it fixed things for me. If you are afraid to do this, then use the trick/hack to let it upgrade itself and it should fix the booting issue by reinstalling grub. I know that it is a pain, but as long as you get back your linux partition back and it works, then go right ahead and do it. Regards, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
