On 25/09/2007, at 6:41 AM, Scott Silva wrote: > Alfred von Campe spake the following on 9/24/2007 1:59 PM: >>> Today I decided to install all the latest updates (including the >>> -06 kernel). The "yum update" seems to have run just fine (no >>> errors), but when I rebooted the system it just sits there with >>> the word "GRUB" in the upper left hand corner. I booted from the >>> CentOS 4.5 install CD into rescue mode, did a "chroot /mnt/ >>> sysimage" and reinstalled grub and the latest kernel, but it >>> still gets stuck in the same place. It's not that I can't boot >>> the new kernel; I can't even get to the grub screen! >> I'll answer my own question. In addition to re-installing grub, a >> "grub-install /dev/sda" was required to get the system to boot. I >> thought that reinstalling grub via yum/rpm would take care of it, >> but apparently it didn't. Lesson learned, panic averted. >> Alfred > That is what most of us probably thought you meant when you said > you re-installed grub. Out of interest, is this something that is always required when upgrading Grub? i.e. should one always manually run "grub-install" /dev/XXX" after doing so? Cheers, Michael