On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 13:48:00 -0400 Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The last time I signed off of Fedora 25, I opted to install updates. I don't understand this. Updating the system requires that it be running, in order to download the packages, and install them. Is this some kind of GUI functionality? Did you power down the system during the update? Have you successfully performed an update like this before? > Now it boots to a minimal grub menu, with no listing of kernel > choices. I'm sorry to say I haven't understood grub well for about 10 > years. But I looked up some guides to using the menu (without > success). This sounds like the boot record for grub on the drive was damaged. Or the location it is pointing to in no longer valid. > > If I type 'exit,' I am able to boot Windows, which is dual installed. > But I guess Grub can't find a kernel to boot, and I suppose it can't > find its own config? > > I tried things like > > boot (which said I needed to tell it a kernel to use first) > linux (which I thought was a way to load a kernel, but I just get > "error: command 'linux' not found") > ls (which can see the partitions, but can't tell what fs they are > using, for the most part). > > Seems like the ls is kind of the issue--with the exception of one ext2 > partition (swap I guess) and one FAT (Windows), grub can't read the > filesystems on the disk, so I can't tell it what kernel to boot. Something has damaged the filesystem from the sounds of it. I wonder if it is just a coincidence that this happened during an update. > Can anyone provide any guidance? > > FYI, this is an HP Envy laptop, if that helps. Is it possible the drive has gone bad? Is there a way for you to boot a rescue CD or a live CD (or USB)? Then you could run diagnostics / investigate from a running system. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
