Unable to boot my machine

[Steve Fink]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:50 -0800, 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.
> -- 
> Slainte,
> Richard S. Crawford (http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K)
> Fitness blog: http://www.mossroot.com/02h
> The Literate Penguin: http://www.mossroot.com/lp
> "You can't trust your judgement if your imagination is
> out of focus."  --Mark Twain
> 
> 
> 

Richard,

Looks to me like you accidentally SysLinux'd your HDD.  Re-install GRUB
on your HDD, usually to the MBR to overwrite SysLinux.

Good Luck!

Best,

Steve