>----Ursprungligt meddelande---- >Från : rogerheflin@xxxxxxxxx >Datum : 2020-05-15 - 21:40 () >Till : users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Kopia : jon.ingason@xxxxxxxxx, upaitag@xxxxxxxx >Ämne : Re: Computer will not boot from harddrive > >Fixing the boot depends on how it is broke. It could be boot block >missing, grub stage1.5-3 pieces missing, grub.conf missing corrupted >and/or kernel/initramfs files, missing boot flag on the partition. > >What message does it give you when you attempt to boot up? > >And in general except for a single condition I know of that would have >required you to be updating kernels before the final reboot, typically >the boot stuff does not suddenly stop working. So you probably need >to indicate what work you did on that last boot. There are 2-3 >different failures you can have if you were updating a kernel and it >did not go exactly right. Where exactly is it failing in the boot? >And I deal with people all day that come to me with how do I do this >to fix linux booting, and rarely are their guesses on what is actually >broken and needs to be fix right. And often if they fixed what they >wanted to do would have made things much worse.. > >On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:19 AM stan via users ><users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 15 May 2020 17:25:04 +0200 (CEST) >> "jon.ingason@xxxxxxxxx" <jon.ingason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > The question is how can I repair the boot partition? >> >> Since you are running legacy BIOS, I think you mean the MBR at the >> start of the drive, right? The command to do that is >> >> grub-install /dev/[sda] >> >> where sda is the name of the hard drive you want to fix. Not a >> partition, but the whole device. >> >> blkid >> will give you the device names for your system. OK thans I think I have got it. Will try to morrow to se if I have got it right. > Regards Jon Ingason _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
