Upgrade disaster - grub update failed and now my machine won't boot

[Carl Anderson]

Also, I meant to say I went from 9.10 to 10.04, not 9.04.  I had followed
the instructions and had just upgraded all my 9.10 packages before doing the
10.04 upgrade...

Carl

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Carl Anderson <carl.anderson at gmail.com>wrote:

> I went through the GUI upgrade from 9.04 to 10.04 last night.  I habitually
> keep my machine up to date, so this upgrade was not from some random or
> uncommon configuration.
>
> Everything went fine until grub was being installed / upgraded.  I got a
> popup asking me to select a device where grub should be installed - in a way
> it resembled fdisk output, there were the individual devices listed
> (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc) as well as the individual partitions on each.  I
> selected the partition that contains my kernel images /dev/sda2 and tried to
> install grub there.  I saw a message saying that the operation failed.
> Luckily I was able to retry selecting a partition and so I select different
> partitions.  I ended up trying all of my partitions individually until I had
> tried them all.  I got the impression that I needed to select the drive
> device rather than the partition.  So I ended up selecting both /dev/sda and
> /dev/sdb and none of the individual partitions.  It reported success and
> continued on the upgrade.  When it came time to reboot, I discovered that
> the machine was locked at the point where GRUB usually pops up with a kernel
> selection.  I don't see anything but a black screen.
>
> I sure wish I knew what I did wrong!
>
> Any help is appreciated - I'm writing from my work machine and won't be
> able to try anything until i get home tonight.
>
> Carl Anderson
>
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