After updates, won't boot past the word "grub" with F9

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:33:53AM -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
> After the updates that have come out, Friday though yesterday, I
> finally did a reboot. Whe4n it boots, the word “grub” pops up on
> the screen and that’s as far as it goes.

You likely mean "grub> " prompt.  Right?

> I assume its toast

Most likely this assumption is wrong although in an order
to boot you may need to type manually commands you are normally
have in grub.conf - like "root ...", "kernel ..." and "initrd ..."
followed by "boot".  grub normally expands what you typed, when
asked, so this is not as bad as it sounds.  You can start by
typing "help".  Once you booted you may fix grub configuration.

It appears that grub got installed but it is unable to find its
configuration files.

> but what caused it?

Good question.  You should have in /root files like 'syslog'
and 'anaconda.log' from your installation attempt and there could
be clues there.  Another option is to boot "rescue" and peek
at what you saved.

   Michal