On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 11:28 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > Here is what worked for years: The Grub was on disk hd0 and Linux > was on hd0,0 thru 6 and hd1,0 thru 7. The BIOS could find all the Linux > /boot/grub/ without fail. > > Now I have just one hard drive all set in the BIOS setup and I went > up in the F7 Rescue cd and told grub the following: > > Grub> root (hd0,5) > Grub> setup (hd0) > Grub> quit > > This worked according to the written info from grub. But It would not > work. I would get a bios error. > > So I installed FC6 basic in the (hd0,0) partition and it worked > fine. Then I added the directions to this F7 and of course Grub found > it. Here I am again on the old computer. This would work only if the grub boot block was partition 5 and you had another boot loader that would know to go to partition 5 to look for the grub boot block. I can't believe you read instructions that told you to do this. -- ======================================================================= Men often believe -- or pretend -- that the "Law" is something sacred, or at least a science -- an unfounded assumption very convenient to governments. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
