[PLUG] Fedora doesnt boot

2009-11-12 Thread abhi
hi all. My fedora (and Win Xp) refuses to boot.I have a dual boot system(5 fedora 11 kernels + Win Xp) The previous night, my system was updating kernel and hung. So, i stopped it. Next morning when i tried to boot, i cud see the progress bar, but after that a small cursor wud blink and just sit

Re: [PLUG] Fedora doesnt boot

2009-11-12 Thread Manas Alekar
At GRUB menu, press c. Lands you at grub prompt. Then: rootnoverify(0,0) chainloader +1 boot You might have root(1,0) as WinXP. I hope you get the idea. Be careful, although this sequence is hard to abuse, you want to tiptoe around all things boot loader and partitions.

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva 2010

2009-11-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 13 November 2009 11:00:47 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: i upgraded my laptop's Mandriva 2009.1 to 2010 and upgrade worked smooth. This is in contrast to past 2-3 experiences when a clean install was essential because upgrade process did not work smoothly. Good to know that. Its one feature