On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed. > It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel > updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot. > > This is just a minor annoyance -- I'd have to boot the install CD in rescue > mode, let it mount Fedora on /mnt/sysimage, chroot to it, and execute > /sbin/grub-install -- but I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this. > > This just happened again -- after installing 2.6.33.8-149.fc13, rebooting my > laptop only results in a black screen, with a BIOS cursor uselessly blinking > away in the top-left corner. Whip out the rescue CD, and now a few minutes > later I'm back in business. > > But then, I updated a different server to 2.6.33.8-149.fc13, and it booted > the new kernel just fine. Previously, this same server got similarly > de-grubbed by an earlier kernel update, but the laptop had no issues being > updated to the same kernel. > I can't say that it -ever- happened to me (and I'm running Fedora since F1 on multiple workstations) This, of-course, doesn't invalidate your report. Can you find some commonality between the two (?) effected machines? - Gilboa -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
