Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:20:50 +0000, Dave wrote:
> An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word
> "GRUB" in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the
> last hour or so.
>
Has happened to many people before:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/450143
> Here's what I did.
>
You installed a "kernel" update, which runs /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
which in turn reinstalls GRUB via grubby. The kernel package is
not the culprit, however. Something at run-time has changed your
system environment in a way that confused the GRUB installation.
How exactly remains to be found out.
> Has anyone else seen anything like this? And, more importantly, does
> anyone have any suggestions of ways to fix it?
>
You need to reinstall GRUB just once more. Use rescue mode,
for example. I think above bz ticket gives hints.
Just to chime in, That advice is great 99% of the time, if that doesn't
work, try SuberGrubDisk to rescue grub. A similar thing happened to me a
while ago and I tried that a few times, but still had issues. I don't
think you will need to do this, since my problem was impacted more by
the change to the pata driver setup (my pata drives went from hd* to sd*
and borked my systems a little) but it is a good tool to have for that
rare just in case that the rescue mode doesn't work.
~Seann