Bug 466486 - F10 machine no longer boots after latest updates
Summary: F10 machine no longer boots after latest updates
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-10 14:27 UTC by Dan Winship
Modified: 2008-10-22 21:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-10-22 21:30:47 UTC
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Description Dan Winship 2008-10-10 14:27:09 UTC 
After installing some updates, I rebooted my machine, and it hung after printing the word "GRUB".

I tried rerunning the installer and having it reinstall the boot loader, and that just made it print "GRUB " over and over in an infinite loop. I tried using the "rescue system" mode, and running grub-install and the kernel postinst script by hand, but that didn't help either.

grub-0.97-34.fc10.i386
kernel-2.6.27-0.398.rc9.fc10.i686

I'm not sure what other packages are relevant...
Comment 1 Dan Winship 2008-10-10 14:36:15 UTC 
a second manual grub-install seems to have fixed it. (maybe i typoed the first time). I'm still not sure why it stopped working in the first place. It definitely booted successfully immediately after the F10 upgrade, so something happened to it after that point
Comment 2 John Poelstra 2008-10-22 21:30:47 UTC 
Thanks for the update.  Please reopen this bug if it happens again.
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