On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:38:07PM +0100, Kai Zhang wrote: > Hi > i'm installing the FC3 on my PC (PIII 500 384M two harddisks). Primary > one is xp 8G, secondary slave is FC3 10G with 800M swap. > Installation seems successful. > FC3 boot up the first time, PC restarts itself when showing GRUB loading stage2. > I did memtest86. Memories look fine. Linux rescue, showes all Hard > disks are there. FC can be mounted on /mnt/sysimages. > The only problem I can think of is that FC3 is not installed on a > primary partition. > Could this be the reason of the problem? Any solutions? This is a well known problem. Use the rescue disk so you can chroot to your root partition. Then install grub by the following steps: grub grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit Change arguments from (hd0,0) is you root partition in not /dev/hda1. I assume the error you are talking about is that grub says it can't find stage2. -- ======================================================================= Avoid cliches like the plague. They're a dime a dozen. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
