System does not boot after 'yum update'

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 1/9/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> At 4:00 PM -0600 1/9/07, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >After doing a 'yum update' last night and shutting down the machine,
> >my machine failed to start back up properly this morning: the BIOS
> >appears to load without issue, and then a screen with the text "GRUB
> >_" comes up. And nothing else occurs.
>  ...
>
> I see that you installed a kernel, that you use the default partitioning,
> and that you dual-boot MSWindows.
>
> I had a mysterious problem on my dual-booted machine after installing a
> kernel, where Grub could not find stage 2.  It turns out that my system had
> been a hostage to fortune for a long time, as I had made a copy of the
> /boot partition's bootsector to a file to use from MSWindow's NTLDR's
> boot.ini, and had not updated that file after an upgrade (and a new grub
> install).  If you're booting directly from grub without using NTLDR, this
> should not be your problem.
> --


I do not do that. Grub chainloads to NTLDR, per Anaconda's default setup

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