On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
On 05/03/10 09:15 PM, Henrik Frisk wrote:
> all updates" without checking what it was. I then left off. When I came back
> the screen had frozen. I did a forced reboot but now the computer hangs
> after the GRUB screen. There are no messages that I am able to intercept,
> just a black screen with a cursor in the top left corner.
>

Most likely you just need a grub reinstall. Try booting with a LiveCD or
a rescue disc (your Fedora 11 DVD will suffice for this purpose).

Thank you for your quick answer. Oddly, in the mean time, I had tried to boot the machine under OS X (I have a dual boot setup managed by rEFFIT) and the OS X startup hung just like the Fedora. So I booted the machine from an Apple Systems disc and ran a harddisk tool only to find out that everything was OK with the OSX partition on the disk holding three partitions (one for osx, one two for Fedora). After this OS X miraculously booted AND Fedora booted as well. Makes me think there is something funky about the disk?

Anyways, thanks for the help, and how do i do a grub reinstall should I have to do it in the future? I boot it from a cd or dvd, and...

Thanks everyone else too for a great job with Fedora!

best,

/Henrik