Cannot boot after the last updates

[Joel Rees]

On Aug 16, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Craig White wrote:

> 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


Heh. I'd be likely to boot knoppix to download and burn the rescue CD  
image. I always seem to take the long route around.