From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2012-07-16, JTJersey  wrote:   
   > My daughters Mandriva 2011 system, which has been running fine for over a   
   > year, today has developed an issue.  She jiggled the mouse to wake it up   
   > and told me the screen looked "fuzzy" so she rebooted.  The BIOS screen   
   > looked normal but instead of booting into Mandriva all she gets is a   
   > screen that says "grub:" and a blinking cursor.  I'd appreciate any   
   > suggestions for a course of action to get her system booting normally   
   > again.   
      
   Hardware problems?   
   How did she reboot?   
   Get out a disk of say Mandriva One and see if that boots. Mount the   
   / partition from the hard disk somewhere and reinstall grub. and then   
   see what happens. (I do not know grub well so cannot really help there)   
   What happens before the grub: Is there a list of possible boot options?   
   If not when you moutned the disk / look to see if /boot/grub exists   
   (that is in Mandriva One, do   
   mkdir /harddisk   
   mount /dev/sda1 /harddisk,   
   where /dev/sda1 is the partition containing your / partition on the hard   
   drive-- change the name as appropriate.   
   Then look in /harddisk/boot/grub and see if it exists, is readable, etc.   
      
      
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