Alternative booting

[Chris Jones]

> Well, I don't fault GRUB for not booting the OS when it gets fed wrong
> info. What I squarely blame GRUB for is that at the grub> prompt no
> reasonable means of recovery are available, at least not in my case.

It could well be that during your updates, the file /boot/grub/grub.conf is 
rewritten. If it is, and if it is the case that your bios has issues reading 
parts of your / partition, then it could well be that grub cannot read its 
own config file... At which point I'm not sure what you expect it to be able 
to do for you.

Chris