06-30-2009
Fedora on Laptop No Longer Boots
Hi,
I'm a bit of a newbie, so please bare with me. I installed Fedora 10 on a Dell Latitude D610 a few weeks ago. The computer previously had Windows on it, but I wiped it clean. I've been trying out Fedora successfully for the past couple of weeks and I was able to use the computer as recently as last night.
When using it last night I was experimenting with OpenLDAP. Also, I let the computer install some updates that it prompted me to install. When I was done for the night I shutdown properly and all seemed well.
This morning the laptop will no longer boot up. I get the normal Dell (BIOS) screen but when it proceeds the screen goes black except for a blinking cursor. There doesn't seem to be anything I can do at this point.
I am able to use the Fedora install DVD to boot into recovery mode, but I'm not sure how to proceed with figuring out what's wrong.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
---------- Post updated at 07:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:49 PM ----------
Issue solved!
I used the install media and got to the command prompt. From there I tried (re) installing grub. That seemed to do the trick!
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NAME
DBIx::Class::StartupCheck - Run environment checks on startup
SYNOPSIS
use DBIx::Class::StartupCheck;
DESCRIPTION
This module used to check for, and if necessary issue a warning for, a particular bug found on Red Hat and Fedora systems using their
system perl build. As of September 2008 there are fixed versions of perl for all current Red Hat and Fedora distributions, but the old
check still triggers, incorrectly flagging those versions of perl to be buggy. A more comprehensive check has been moved into the test
suite in "t/99rh_perl_perf_bug.t" and further information about the bug has been put in DBIx::Class::Manual::Troubleshooting.
Other checks may be added from time to time.
Any checks herein can be disabled by setting an appropriate environment variable. If your system suffers from a particular bug, you will
get a warning message on startup sent to STDERR, explaining what to do about it and how to suppress the message. If you don't see any
messages, you have nothing to worry about.
CONTRIBUTORS
Nigel Metheringham
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AUTHOR
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LICENSE
You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.16.2 2011-05-23 DBIx::Class::StartupCheck(3)