freezing machine updated/upgraded to rawhide/current sulfur
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon May 12 12:38:25 UTC 2008
--- Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have updated/upgraded the machine that was
> freezing all the time to Rawhide using Fedora
> Preview Iso + Updates.
> >
> > There is only one gotcha. Grub is not working
> correctly?
> >
> > When starting up machine. IT does nothing it stays
> at
> >
> > GRUB
> >
> > and stays there. I can successfully boot it using
> livecd's to boot the partition.
> >
>
> that grub-install /dev/sda1 may not have worked.
> since that is your win xp
> partition.
>
> here is what I did:
> boot from a CD that has rescue mode
> do the chroot to /mnt/sysimage
> run grub interactively
> at the grub> prompt
> grub> root (hd0,1)
> grub> setup /dev/sda
> grub>quit
>
I tried the above, but close to the end I got:
grub> setup /dev/sda
Error 11: Unrecognized device string
Grub is working now. I used
# grub-install /dev/sda
and all is fine. Thank you for sharing your example,
it was still very helpful.
Regards,
Antonio
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