Installed with disastrous results
Wolfgang
wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Wed Dec 3 12:09:15 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 21:09, PCDEBB | Fedora-list wrote:
> I decided to upgrade my Redhat 9 to Fedora Core lastnite (12/2/03 9:30pm).
> Install seemed well until I rebooted. I simply got the word "GRUB" with a
> blinking cursor. No selections, couldn't type anything at all. Thankfully
> I created a boot disk, so I was able to boot into Fedora. Installing grub
> was a disaster. It is now 5am, and I just now reached my windows desktop
> after searching all over for a bootable windows cd to fix my mbr. The
> install seemed so simple that even I could do it, but no such thing. Thru
> the night it went from bad to worse to where the internet wouldn't even work
> anymore. I went to many forums and asked around for help but got no help.
> I went back and did a fresh install of linux, told it not to install any
> bootloader, but I still got the grub screen. I went to various how-to's to
> try an configure grub, no luck. I tried everything I can think of until it
> literally brought me down to tears. I love being a tech chick and I really
> want to get into this linux thing, but this experience has been very
> discouraging.
>
> At this point I'm considering removing all traces of linux off this system
> for good, but I don't want to go out like that. I really want to know how
> to fix the problem and learn from it. At this point I can still boot from
> the floppy I think, but I'm scared to even reboot my system now, and I'd
> rather have a menu choice to boot from instead of a floppy. (floppies tend
> to find their way "reformatted" around here)
>
> Can someone please steer a nice lady like myself in the right direction and
> start over and fix my boot now? Can I even edit my boot.ini in windows?
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Deb
I had this problem before. And what I ended up doing was to boot from
the Boot Floppy. Then go into /boot/grub directory and run grub-install
/dev/hda. And that fixed that grub problem for me.
Wolf
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