From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 13:27:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B8010656D1 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:27:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Received: from mail.familycareintl.org (static-64-61-120-78.isp.broadviewnet.net [64.61.120.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5668FC15 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from FCIEXCHANGE1.FCI ([::1]) by FCIEXCHANGE1.FCI ([::1]) with mapi id 14.01.0323.003; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:16:48 -0400 From: Jean-Paul Natola To: "questions@FreeBSD.org" Thread-Topic: ot :stuck in GRUB Thread-Index: Acx9F6M35sHBc+PuREGSgE/ujX4WMg== Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:16:47 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [192.168.1.12] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: ot :stuck in GRUB X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:27:26 -0000 Hi all, A Friend of mine has some version of either *nux or bsd installed (he does = not even know for sure), turns out he clicked "yes" for some updates to ins= tall and upon restarting he now winds up at GRUB> , I told him to type "bo= ot" and it reports "kernel must loaded prior to booting" I really have no time to get out there, so he shipped me his hard drive w= hich I should be receiving today or tomorrow. It *seems* to me the update = may have corrupted some type of conf file, am I on the right track here? Do= es anyone have any suggestion, since its an old friend I can't charge him, = but nor do I want to spend a significant amount of time on it. TIA