grub hangs after update

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 2009-01-28 14:04, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> I saw the same thing about a week ago.  The problem was the master boot
> record (MBR).  This is how I fixed it (note that I backed everything up
> one more time before doing this).  
> 
> <disclaimer>Please note that this rebuilds the MBR so it's not to be
> tried without understanding what you're doing</disclaimer>
> 
> 1.  Boot from a rescue disk to "repair" the system.
> 2.  Let the start-up process find and mount your filesystem.
> 3.  Chroot to /mnt/sysimage
> 4.  Look at /etc/grub.conf to both be sure it looked OK and to
>     look for the "root (hd0,0)" or "root (hd0,1)" or whatever line.
> 5.  Run "grub"
>     5a.  type in "root (hd0,0)", which is what I found in grub.conf
>     5b.  type "setup (hd0)"
> 6.  Rebooted the system and it all started up.
> 
> Take a look at the page:
> http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/howto_restore_mbr_grub.php

Thanks.  This did the trick.

> 
> -- Mark C. Allman, PMP
> -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc.
> -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263
> 
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> 
> 
> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 09:23 +0100, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
>> Yesterday I updated several F10 systems and got, among other things, a
>> new kernel.  All systems were reasonably up-to-date (less than a week).
>> On two systems, when I boot, grub hangs after just displaying GRUB.  The
>> other updated systems booted without problems.
>>
>> The two affected systems are a Dell Inspiron 1720 (64 bit OS) and a Dell
>> Inspiron 8200 (32 bit).
>>
>> Has anybody else seen this?  Does anybody have a suggestion on how to
>> fix this?
>>
>> -- 
>> Sjoerd Mullender
>>
>  
> 
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Sjoerd Mullender