Re: Fedora 11 fail because of Anaconda :(

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg hi is>]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 14:59:07 +0000,
>   "\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" <johannbg hi is> wrote:
>   
> > However after I updated the machine after the upgrade and rebooted, grub  
> > was messed up for some reason
> > and I was left with just "GRUB" on the screen which leaves me a bit  
> > worried I fixed it by rescue booting and reinstall grub
> > but that is something that a novice end user certainly is unable to  
> > perform or do..
> >     
>
> I have been seeing that to, but haven't figured out what has been triggering
> it. Do you use raid for /boot?
>
> By the way you don't need to reboot in rescue mode to fix this.
> You can use the configfile command to indicate where your configfile
> is located and then boot from one of the menu items. Something like:
> configfile (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf
> Then once the system is up as root you can run grub and redo the setup
> with something like the following (for a raid 1 system):
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> setup (hd1)
>   
This was default next next done F10 installation with encryption default
partition layout.

If I had the grub command line I could have but all I got
was "GRUB"  no more no less...

I just booted the rescue image chrooted  and re installed grub which 
solved it.

Noticed that pjones did some recent changes to grub going to ping him 
about to
see if they might have caused this.

JBG

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