On Fri, 29 May 2009, Wendell Nichols wrote:
While I was conducting a web meeting with a number of people yesterday my
keyboard stopped working. Thats the second time its happened and I was
forced to reboot! Imagine my acute frustration that because of a kernel
update the boot loader failed and I was left with a blinking cursor! While
10 people patiently waited on the phone I had to boot the installer and go
through the "change boot loader" part of an os upgrade. Luckly that worked
and I was back in business in about 15 minutes.
I suspect that all my raving about the stability of linux over windows is now
the source of some humor in my company and the 3 other companies represented
on the call....
The kernel update that "got me" was: kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64
ackkptewee :-)
wcn
I suspect the problem here is that when you last updated the OS grub
wasn't updated properly, meaning that the boot sector part of grub was
looking for the stage2 file at one location of the disk but this was now
blank space from the filesystem point of view. From then on, whenever you
updated your kernel, or did something else in the /boot filesytem, you ran
the risk of overwriting this data and killing grub.
Michael Young
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