On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:14:48 +0300
Gilboa Davara <gilboad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets
> installed. It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every
> thirty or so kernel updates, grub fails to come up after a
> subsequent reboot.
>
> This is just a minor annoyance -- I'd have to boot the install CD
> in rescue mode, let it mount Fedora on /mnt/sysimage, chroot to it,
> and execute /sbin/grub-install -- but I'm wondering if anyone else
> is seeing this.
>
> This just happened again -- after installing 2.6.33.8-149.fc13,
> rebooting my laptop only results in a black screen, with a BIOS
> cursor uselessly blinking away in the top-left corner. Whip out the
> rescue CD, and now a few minutes later I'm back in business.
>
> But then, I updated a different server to 2.6.33.8-149.fc13, and it
> booted the new kernel just fine. Previously, this same server got
> similarly de-grubbed by an earlier kernel update, but the laptop
> had no issues being updated to the same kernel.
>
I've had this happen to me too. My theory has been that either it has
nothing to do with Fedora at all and it is a BIOS problem or that the
grub device.map file gets reversed somehow.
In either case, you would have to have 2 disks so
perhaps we can determine if anyone who has seen this problem only has
one disk which would dispel my theory.
Steve
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