On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:34:30 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: > --- On Sun, 12/28/08, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: [....] >> 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. [...] > 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. I did the latter (two or three times), on the principle of trying the easiest or most familiar thing first. Updating the boot settings did no good, but when I told it (tremulously emulating the amorous porcupines!), it did acknowledge the existence of another OS (for the first time since the troubles began), and let me rename it. I just edited /boot/grub/grub.conf, correcting the entry for XP to what it used to be, having carefully saved that *elsewhere* before all this. I also commented out "hiddenmenu" and raised the timeout from 5 to 15 seconds; I'll try booting to XP shortly. Then I noticed something *very* odd: all the kernel names include "fc9"! And sure enough, so does uname -a. All this despite the fact it was my F*10* DVD, which has succeeded on at least five other machines! Stay tuned .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
