On 5/24/05, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [ I described my booting problems this morning ] > that's very odd. I for one didn't see it, and I'm hardpressed to give > you a good idea of what could have caused grub from being able to see > its second stage without there being a change to your partitioning or > filesystem layout. afaik editting grub.conf isn't enough to cause a > problem you saw, so i doubt the postinstall scripts from the kernel > update caused this. I'd be somewhat concerned about the health of that > disk. Yup; in the past, when I've messed up grub.conf, I would get dropped into the GRUB shell, which looks different than what I saw this morning. I'd be sad if the disk were dying; this is my new laptop, which is only about 2 months old ... I didn't investigate further this morning, because I just wanted to boot and check my email, and when "grub-install" from rescue mode worked I stopped playing. > Is this a raid configuration by chance? Nope: all one hard drive. I *had* been playing with the partitioning over the weekend, but as far as I recall I didn't do anything yesterday. Unless it recurs, I think I'm going to put it down as "just one of those things". MEF -- __ Mary Ellen Foster __ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ __ "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." (Robert Firth)