Re: freezing machine updated/upgraded to rawhide/current sulfur

[Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 yahoo com>]

--- Richard Hally <rhally 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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