On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 16:42, Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fixing the boot depends on how it is broke. It could be boot block > missing, grub stage1.5-3 pieces missing, grub.conf missing corrupted > and/or kernel/initramfs files, missing boot flag on the partition. > Don't overlook hardware issues. The hard disk may have failed, but there could also be a bad cable. Some cheap cable lose spring tension in contacts over time. It sometimes helps to unplug and reinsert each connector. If a connection is loose so it takes very little effort to unplug, the cable probably needs to be replaced. I've seen connects so loose that the fell off when a system was moved. > > What message does it give you when you attempt to boot up? > > And in general except for a single condition I know of that would have > required you to be updating kernels before the final reboot, typically > the boot stuff does not suddenly stop working. So you probably need > to indicate what work you did on that last boot. There are 2-3 > different failures you can have if you were updating a kernel and it > did not go exactly right. Where exactly is it failing in the boot? > And I deal with people all day that come to me with how do I do this > to fix linux booting, and rarely are their guesses on what is actually > broken and needs to be fix right. And often if they fixed what they > wanted to do would have made things much worse.. > Excellent advice. > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:19 AM stan via users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 May 2020 17:25:04 +0200 (CEST) > > "jon.inga...@telia.com" <jon.inga...@telia.com> wrote: > > > > > The question is how can I repair the boot partition? > > > > Since you are running legacy BIOS, I think you mean the MBR at the > > start of the drive, right? The command to do that is > > > > grub-install /dev/[sda] > > > > where sda is the name of the hard drive you want to fix. Not a > > partition, but the whole device. > > > > blkid > > will give you the device names for your system. > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- George N. White III
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