Hi Scott, Thanks a lot for your message back. /boot does have its own partition which is in /etc/fstab and was mounted at the time of the grub-install. I am going to try some more noodling and googling to see if I can figure this out. [root@duey1 ~]# grep boot /etc/fstab LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 [root@duey1 ~]# df /boot Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 38859 12863 23990 35% /boot [root@duey1 ~]# ls /boot/grub device.map fat_stage1_5 grub.conf menu.lst reiserfs_stage1_5 stage1 vstafs_stage1_5 e2fs_stage1_5 ffs_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 minix_stage1_5 splash.xpm.gz stage2 xfs_stage1_5 Steve > From talbotscott@xxxxxxx Tue Mar 30 00:41:58 2004 > Subject: Re: Grub problems after RH7.1->FC1 Upgrade > From: Scott Talbot > > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 18:40, Steve Thorpe wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I upgraded an RH7.1 box to FC1 and it went fairly smoothly. > > One thing I noticed after the upgrade though -- it was > > still using lilo and grub hadn't been installed. So I > > installed & attempted to configure grub, with only partial > > success - it manages to boot to the grub> prompt but then > > it waits for me to manually finish the boot procedure by > > entering these commands by hand: > > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp root=/dev/hda5 > > initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img > > boot > > > > I really really want this to be automated at bootup! > > There must be something really simple that I am missing - > > right? Any advice would be very much appreciated. Some > > more info on how I installed follows FYI. > > > > Thanks a lot, > > > My best guess is that /boot has not been set up properly. Did you give > it a separate partition when you installed? > If you did, put it on its own partition, there should be a reference to > it in your /etc/fstab and that needed to be mounted when you ran the > grub-install command. > > Scott
