[Gllug] CentOS boot problem

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 12 Oct, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a CentOS 5 machine. It was booting fine a few days ago.
> I did a "yum update" today and it installed various updates, one
> included the kernel.
> When I rebooted it, it fails to boot now, and comes up with a grub
> prompt, no menu, just a prompt.
> It will not take any keyboard input.
> Has anyone seen this before with CentOS.
> I have never seen it before with debian or ubuntu.
> 
> I suppose I will have to boot from CD and repair it, but I think it is
> very bad if "yum update" kills a box so badly like this.
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> James

   I had a problem with Debian updates a while ago because it changed the
disc labelling, grub to version 2, and kernel version, all in quick
succession. In my case it was easiest to do a new clean installation.

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