RE: Kernel update nuked my machine

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Thanks.

Is there a separate Rescue CD for FC10 or does the live CD serve that
purpose.  I haven't found a link to a Rescue CD for 10.

Herb 

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick O'Callaghan [mailto:pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:51 AM
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Kernel update nuked my machine

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 08:47 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote:
> Tuesday evening the automatic updater downloaded a kernel update.  
> After rebooting all I get is a totally black screen with "GRUB_" in 
> the upper left corner of the screen.  It responds to nothing on the
keyboard.
> 
> This is a dual boot Dell machine with FC10 and Windows XP.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Is there something I can do with the rescue CD or is

> it best to wait for FC11 and try to just do an update from there?

Boot with the rescue disk. Chroot to /mnt/sysimage. Run "grub-install"
(the default arguments are probably correct). Reboot as normal.

poc

--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux