F7 install: grub prompt on reboot

[Colin Brace]

On 6/4/07, Jay Goodman <fedora-list at goody.homelinux.net> wrote:

> I had a similar problem with this and FC6.   I had a USB thumbdrive
> pluggin in at boot.   Grub got awfully confused with the key plugged in.

Jay, I leave a couple of USB drives plugged in, but I had no problem
booting FC6. For the time being, I've switch them off.

What's baffling me is that when I boot from the F7 DVD, it gives me
drives different dev names than when booting from disk. Normally, my
boot drive is /dev/sdd, but when booting from the CD fdisk lists it as
/dev/sdc.

I've tried various settings on the #boot line in menu.lst to no avail;
it keeps dropping me back in the grub prompt.

At this point, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing; Any
suggestions would be most welcome.

Also, where did I go wrong? Was it a mistake to let the installer
configure (ie, update) Grub?

-- 
  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam