Always Learning wrote: >> > Is there such a thing as a CentOS rescue disk? >> > Google gives many links to such a thing, >> > but when I pursue them I do not get to an URL >> > where I can actually download one. > > Try > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd Thanks, I'll try that. I actually found that a Fedora-20 Live CD (on a USB stick) did the trick. After booting into the Troubleshoot option and then choosing "Boot from local disk" it actually found the current CentOS-6.5 system and booted into it. I was quite surprised as the system had two other OSes on it - a Fedora-20 partition and an old CentOS partition. I assume the rescue found and used the setup in the /boot partition. But if it can do this, it seems a pity that grub cannot offer at least an alternative to the flashing "-" it was showing me. It also seems a pity that the CentOS Live CD does not offer a similar Troubleshooting option. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland