On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 12:47 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/18/2012 12:32 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > > Can anyone guide me through troubleshooting and hopfully fixing this > > without hosing my system? > > Two questions: first, can you boot into an earlier kernel? Second, if > you can't, do you have access to a LiveCD? (Doesn't even have to be > Fedora; just something that can get you to a working system.) Well this is weird! I was thinking along the same lines. I found a F14 liveCD and that booted just fine. Had a little poke around the disks using the disk utility (which reported both hard drives as healthy) and then decided to try the original F16 installation disk (not a liveCD) as a rescue disk. Rescue mode failed with a "Fatal error" (Sorry I didn't write it down) but I just saw a strange error about mounting one of the other partitions on the disk (I have this partition mounted from fstab). So I went back to the liveCD, and edited the fstab, commenting out the relevant entry and... The system boots fine! (Here's the weird bit) I then uncommented the same line (so it once again tries to mount the partition) and... It still works fine! So what gives? Answering your first question - no I could not boot into an earlier kernel. The grub failure seemed to be before that choice even came up - so why would grub be worried about a partition mounted from fstab which is surely much later in the boot process? Why do I have a working system again simply by changing fstab and then changing it back again? I have a working system and that's the main thing - but if anyone can shed any light as to what went wrong I would be very grateful. Joe, thanks for your help. Thanks again to all. Mark
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