In my research I've not yet seen anything for Fedora about this, and certainly not the combination of two errors. I'll try to be as complete as possible: After a power loss, I was unable to reboot my desktop machine (Dell Dimension E521 running F19). Upon first hitting grub, I received large numbers of syntax/bad command errors. I was eventually dumped into a grub shell, but did not know enough to do anything inside it. Using the F19 install disk I was able to get to an Anaconda shell. I noted that while my root directory was mounted to /mnt/sysimage, the /boot partition was not mounted and I couldn't figure out how to get to it manually. I found that adding GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y to /etc/default/grub allowed me to proceed, at least somewhat. Now, at least, I am able to get further in grub. Just before the grub menu, I see the first error: error: file `/brub2/locale/en.mo.gz' not found This flashes for a brief moment, and then I am presented with the kernel choice menu. I see three different options there: two kernels and the F19 rescue option. I can boot from neither kernel - I get the following: Loading <kernel> error: invalid magic number loading initial ramdisk... error: you need to load the kernel first Press any key to continue... And if I wait long enough it boots into the WinXP partition. If I use the rescue option I gen what looks like a nasty dump, including what appears to be errors in LVM loading lv_root. I do not know how to capture that output. The solutions I've found so far (at least for the first) seem to revolve around accessing /boot (for example, ensuring that en.mo is in /boot/grub2) but I've not yet found a way to get there. The solutions to the second seem to all revolve around booting under another, working, kernel - which I can't seem to do. It had been operating properly before the power cut, but it had been some time (and a number of updates) since it had been rebooted. Does anyone have suggestions? -Don -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
