On 03/05/2010 10:44 PM, Henrik Frisk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Suvayu Ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com <mailto:fatkasuvayu%2Blinux@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
Use grub-install hdx,x for reinstalling grub, where the 1st x is the
number of your harddrive (0-first hd, 1-second hd and so on) and the 2nd
x is 0 if you want to install to MBR, 1 to the 1st partition or whatever
partition your /boot is. If you do not have a /boot, then / it is.