Upgrade from RH8 to FC1 hangs with GRUB

[Wolfgang]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:42, John Rumball wrote:
> Recently I attempted an upgrade from RH8 to FC1 using Yum and 
> everything seemed to be going along well when I noticed yum complaining 
> that it needed X amount of disk space for various packages it was 
> trying to install.  When the upgrade stopped, it was displaying a line 
> which said something like, "Testing transaction:".
> 
> Upon checking the amount of free disk space I discovered that I had 
> only 300MB remaining and figured that this wouldn't be enough to allow 
> me to successfully complete the upgrade.  So I shutdown my system and 
> used Norton Ghost to transfer my entire Linux installation (3 
> partitions) to a new 30GB drive.
> 
> After booting the machine with the new hard drive, the system hangs 
> with the word GRUB in the top left corner of the screen.
> 
> Any idea why this might have happened and what I can try to get past 
> this?  Any comments or suggestions you may have will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> 
> John Rumball
> -- 
> 
Boot your first Fedora CD and use it to boot to your hard drive
(Recovery mode if I remember). Once there, cd to your /boot/grub
directory. Then issue a 'grub-install /dev/hd? (hd? the drive you wish
to boot from). Then reboot your system and it should work again. 

I found that Ghost sometimes, messes up the boot sector, so doing this
usually fixes that problem.

Wolf