Unable to boot my machine
Richard Crawford
rscrawford at mossroot.com
Tue Jan 11 07:00:34 UTC 2005
Okay, I'll go crawl back into my hole now.
Earlier, I'd tried to create a boot floppy before reading the
information that said that the FC3 kernel is too big to fit on a single
floppy. Stupidly, I'd left that floppy in the floppy drive, and
forgotten about it before rebooting the computer, but the BIOS still
boots from the floppy after the CD-ROM drive but before the hard drive.
So I'm guessing it's time for me to get a brain transplant, and then go
to bed. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth.
Richard Crawford wrote:
> I ran up2date and installed the newest kernel on my machine, but now I
> am unable to boot my computer at all. I set the newest kernel as the
> default in the bootloader, and rebooted the machine. I got the
> following error before it even got to the GRUB screen:
>
> SYSLINUX 2.11 2004-08-16 Boot failed
>
> On the off chance that this might have been a problem with the new
> kernel, I booted the computer from the FC3 rescue disk, and switched the
> default kernel back to the older one, but that of course did not work.
>
> Any thoughts? This one's got me stumped.
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