Fedora 13 kernal 2.6.34.6-54.fc13.i686 HP Notebook dv6000 4 years old
I have been having a problem starting my notebook. I get the BIOS screen. But before I get to the GRUB loader menu option. I get a blank screen that saids "Cannot find operating system". It always does this on the first boot, the second boot always starts without a problem.
I am just wondering what messages I can check in the /var/log/ to check if there was any errors maybe with the hard disk or file system?
I have all these and not sure which one I should check:
anaconda.log btmp dkms_autoinstaller maillog-20100919 pm-suspend.log setroubleshoot vbox-install.log
anaconda.program.log btmp-20100904 dmesg maillog-20100926 ppp spooler wpa_supplicant.log
anaconda.storage.log ConsoleKit dmesg.old messages prelink spooler-20100905 wpa_supplicant.log-20100904
audit cron gdm messages-20100905 samba spooler-20100913 wtmp
boot.log cron-20100905 lastlog messages-20100913 secure spooler-20100919 wtmp-20100913
boot.log-20100905 cron-20100913 mail messages-20100919 secure-20100905 spooler-20100926 Xorg.0.log
boot.log-20100913 cron-20100919 maillog messages-20100926 secure-20100913 sssd Xorg.0.log.old
boot.log-20100919 cron-20100926 maillog-20100905 ntpstats secure-20100919 tallylog Xorg.9.log
boot.log-20100926 cups maillog-20100913 pm-powersave.log secure-20100926 vbox yum.log
/var/log/messages
for I/O errors. But could it be that your BIOS has problems and doesn't find your harddrive at a cold boot (my desktop computer has that problem)?boot.log
@ant2009