Weird Grub problem on F9

Dawning Sky the.dawning.sky at gmail.com
Thu May 15 15:48:18 UTC 2008


I found out what went wrong with my system.  From F7 all drives are called
sdx.  So Grub got confused and was installed at the wrong drive.  I had to
manually reinstall it onto the correct partition.

No, I don't have other OS on it.  Fedora only.

DS

08/5/15 Wim <fluffy.vampire at gmail.com>:

>  Hi,
>
>
>
> I can't help you with a solution but I had the same problem. GRUB hangs
> completely at start in text mode. Do you have installs of Windows Vista or
> Windows XP present next to Fedora?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Wim
>
>
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>
> *From:* fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Dawning Sky
> *Sent:* donderdag 15 mei 2008 8:39
> *To:* For users of Fedora
> *Subject:* Weird Grub problem on F9
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded one of my boxes from FC6 to F9 x86_64.  The upgrade itself went
> smoothly.  But when I tried to reboot, the computer just keeps splitting out
> the word "GRUB" and hangs there.
>
> I tried using the DVD to get into the Rescue mode and looked at the
> grub.conf.  It seems normal.  Only thing I'm not very familiar with (I guess
> it's new in F9) is this UUID thing.
>
> I also tried upgrading again using the DVD with "Update Bootloader"
> checked.  The same thing.
>
> Any suggestion is welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> DS
>
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