Please note that it is an IDE hard disk in an IDE to USB box (and working properly both in Linux and Windows...)
1) I installed Fedora on the external Hard disk, installing grub on /dev/sda and deleting the option to start Windows as my goal is to have a Fedora system booting any laptop!!
2) according to the instructions I created a new image
3) I modified the grub.conf file that now looks like:
#boot=/dev/sda1 default=0 timeout=5 splashimage (hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinux-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /usbinitrd.img
Is it correct??
4) I rebooted the machine, but the Rescue disk tells me that there is no Linux partitions!!!!!
5) Fdisk -p /dev/sda says:
Disk /dev/sda:81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 hads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cyclinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 0 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 140 1020127+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 141 9964 78911280 83 Linux
If I manually mount the system by : mkdir /mnt/sysimage mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sysimage mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/boot choot /mnt/sysimage
6) At this point if I issue fdisk /dev/sda I get : Impossible to open /dev/sda ??? what does it mean??
7) If I check my fstab file it looks like:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5, mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda2 /swap swap defaults 0 0
Why boot1 and not boot????
8) at this point I tried to instal grub (grub-install /dev/sda ) but I get the reply :
/dev/sda: not found or not a block device!!!
Any help????Thanks
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Antonio M.
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