On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:00 PM, stan <stanl-fedorau...@vfemail.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 13:48:00 -0400 > Matt Morgan <minxmertzm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The last time I signed off of Fedora 25, I opted to install updates. > > I don't understand this. Updating the system requires that it be > running, in order to download the packages, and install them. Is this > some kind of GUI functionality? Did you power down the system during > the update? Have you successfully performed an update like this before? > I don't understand what it is either. I think it may have been new with F25. I don't believe I had ever used it before. > > > Now it boots to a minimal grub menu, with no listing of kernel > > choices. I'm sorry to say I haven't understood grub well for about 10 > > years. But I looked up some guides to using the menu (without > > success). > > This sounds like the boot record for grub on the drive was damaged. Or > the location it is pointing to in no longer valid. > > > > > If I type 'exit,' I am able to boot Windows, which is dual installed. > > But I guess Grub can't find a kernel to boot, and I suppose it can't > > find its own config? > > > > I tried things like > > > > boot (which said I needed to tell it a kernel to use first) > > linux (which I thought was a way to load a kernel, but I just get > > "error: command 'linux' not found") > > ls (which can see the partitions, but can't tell what fs they are > > using, for the most part). > > > > Seems like the ls is kind of the issue--with the exception of one ext2 > > partition (swap I guess) and one FAT (Windows), grub can't read the > > filesystems on the disk, so I can't tell it what kernel to boot. > > Something has damaged the filesystem from the sounds of it. I wonder > if it is just a coincidence that this happened during an update. > > > Can anyone provide any guidance? > > > > FYI, this is an HP Envy laptop, if that helps. > > Is it possible the drive has gone bad? > > Is there a way for you to boot a rescue CD or a live CD (or USB)? Then > you could run diagnostics / investigate from a running system. > Yes, I set up a F26 boot usb and just installed F26 on top of the existing root. It boots now; the grub options at boot are all messed up but I can work on that. Thanks for the good suggestions!
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