Unable to boot my machine
Steve Fink
stevef at netvantix.com
Tue Jan 11 07:09:26 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 23:00 -0800, Richard Crawford wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Slainte,
> Richard S. Crawford (http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K)
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> "You can't trust your judgement if your imagination is
> out of focus." --Mark Twain
>
>
>
Richard,
LOL! It's not anything I haven't done myself.
Later,
Steve
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