Kernel update nuked my machine

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu May 28 14:50:33 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 08:47 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote:
> Tuesday evening the automatic updater downloaded a kernel update.  After
> rebooting all I get is a totally black screen with "GRUB_" in the upper
> left corner of the screen.  It responds to nothing on the keyboard.
> 
> This is a dual boot Dell machine with FC10 and Windows XP.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Is there something I can do with the rescue CD or is
> it best to wait for FC11 and try to just do an update from there?

Boot with the rescue disk. Chroot to /mnt/sysimage. Run
"grub-install" (the default arguments are probably correct). Reboot as
normal.

poc




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