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Old 20th December 2010, 07:59 AM
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FC14 Installation Crashed to Grub Prompt

I decided to upgrade my FC installation to the latest version - FC itself offered the upgrade when I turned the machine on, so it appeared that it was nicely packaged to make the upgrade easy.
After a long download of packages, the machine rebooted and then started taking me through configuration options (timezone, disks to use for the installation etc) but then it crashed trying to write to disk and now leaves me at a grub prompt whenever I boot.
Is there any way to "get at" the installation files and get back into trying to install or do I now need to download an ISO and burn a DVD and start all over again?
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Old 20th December 2010, 02:10 PM
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Re: FC14 Installation Crashed to Grub Prompt

Since whatever happened occurred after the download and during rebooting, maybe you can try merely re-installing GRUB. It's easy to do and won't harm anything when done correctly. You also can try emergency booting the system with a Super Grub Disk. If that works, then you can re-install GRUB from a terminal in the now running system. The Super Grub Disk also can re-install GRUB.
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