On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Aioanei Rares <fedora.lis...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 03/05/2010 10:44 PM, Henrik Frisk wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Suvayu Ali > <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com<fatkasuvayu%2bli...@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. > Thanks! /h
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