FYI: Did my weekly "yum update". This time: > [rick@kathleen ~]# yum update > {snip} > kernel.i686 0:2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10 > {snip} > Complete! > [rick@kathleen ~]# init 6 > > Did not come up; When I went to check on it, it says: > > GRUB > > In the top left corner... Thats it... Booted CD, selected Rescue Disk, then # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda Reboot. Everything is normal again.
On Tuesday (03/03/2009 at 09:20AM -0600), Rick Richardson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:07:00AM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote: > > > > [rick@kathleen ~]$ root yum update > > {snip} > > kernel.i686 0:2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10 > > {snip} > > Complete! > > [rick@kathleen ~]$ root init 6 > > > > Did not come up; When I went to check on it, it says: > > > > GRUB > > > > In the top left corner... Thats it... > > Booted CD, selected Rescue Disk, then > > # chroot /mnt/sysimage > # grub-install /dev/sda > > Reboot. > Everything is normal again. I had to do the EXACT same thing on a laptop I updated on Sunday. But other platforms I have updated at the same time had no such issue. chris
> On Tuesday (03/03/2009 at 11:01AM -0600), Rick Richardson wrote: > > # yum update > > # grub-install /dev/sda > > # init 6 I did this on rick-laptop today. No problem and I didn't have to boot the rescue CD like for kathleen's desktop yesterday. Don't know why grub-install isn't getting called or is buggy on some desktops or laptops.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450143 ***