Bug 488259 - grub does not want to boot after yum update. Shows "GRUB" in the top left corner.
Summary: grub does not want to boot after yum update. Shows "GRUB" in the top left co...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 450143
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-03 15:32 UTC by Rick Richardson
Modified: 2009-05-29 15:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-05-29 15:31:39 UTC
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Description Rick Richardson 2009-03-03 15:32:18 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Rick Richardson 2009-03-03 16:57:34 UTC
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

Comment 2 Rick Richardson 2009-03-04 15:20:38 UTC
> 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.

Comment 3 Michael Schwendt 2009-05-29 15:31:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450143 ***


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