Archie Ferrier wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I hope someone can help me with a problem that has just reared its ugly > head. When I booted up my Linux box, running Fedora 10, the other day it > just displayed the word GRUB over and over. I have booted it with the > Fedora 10 disc and I can run grub from the command line but I am at a > loss as to what to do next. That is other than re-installing Fedora and > losing all my data. > > I would be grateful for any assistance. > >
Hi Archie, First up, there's no reason you should lose any data unless there is an issue with the integrity of the disk, in which case reinstalling on to a duff disk is asking for problems anyway. Boot the machine with a live cd and back up that data on to an external hard drive or similar, if you haven't done that already. You might also want to test the integrity of your disks if you suspect there may be problems there. You mention that you are able to run grub from the cli - have you tried reinstalling grub? Admittedly you shouldn't have to do this unless the configuration of your hard drives has changed in some way. Can you think of any changes to your system that might have occurred prior to this issue surfacing? Finally, you might want to include the relevant parts of your grub configuration file plus details of your hard drives and partitions that might help us find out why this has occurred. Sean -- The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Frank Zappa -- Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ irc://irc.blitzed.org:6667/dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-04-01 20:00
