Re: Can't boot after upgrade to FC6

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 10:53 -0500, zephod cfl rr com wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: Timothy Murphy <tim birdsnest maths tcd ie>
> > I would try running grub interactively;
> > type "c" when the grub prompt appears,
> > and then "root = (hd0,0)" or "root = (hd1,0)",
> > and see what grub reports.
> 
> That's just it - the grub prompt never appears nor does anything else 
> but a blank screen before a reboot. The way I got into grub 
> interactivly was to enter rescue mode by using the installation DVD 
> and then type grub at the shell prompt.
> 
> # grub
> grub> root (hd0,0)
>    Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
> 
> Is it possible that grub got installed in the wrong place? How can I 
> find out where grub is installed?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
In means to me that your hd0 disk partition 1 is either not there or not
formatted.
Try fdisk /de/hda and see what it tells you.
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