Cannot boot after the last updates

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Aug 16 01:40:40 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 10:31 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> On Aug 16, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Craig White  
> > <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> >>> After the last updates were installed, I cannot boot in my  
> >>> machine: it
> >>> stops when the line
> >>>
> >>> GRUB
> >>>
> >>> appears on the screen. Any ideas how to repair the problem? I am  
> >>> running F9.
> >> ----
> >> probably too much to ask people to search the archives...
> >>
> >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-August/msg01404.html
> >
> > I do not have any rescue/installation disk. Can it be done with
> > Knoppix?  If so, how?  I have tried
> >
> > # grub-install /dev/sda
> > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
> > Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
> > #
> 
> Well, let's hope that means grub left the drive alone.
> 
> How did you install?
> 
> And, if you've booted the box under knoppix, can you mount the  
> partitions with knoppix?
----
most importantly, he would have to chroot to get it to
install/find /boot

Craig




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