hi michael, On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 17:12 -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > > On 1/9/06, jackc <jcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > yes, i understand that, until each of the exits are done, the > cd is still mounted. > Dell 2200 ... sorry, i should have said dell dimension 2200, its a desktop. celeron cpu, 18gb of disk, etc. i am taking another run at this, i will try this url and see if it helps. i may have been on the right track earlier today, but not taking disk 1 out before the following boot may have glitched. i'll report the results, thx again,jackc... > Is this a laptop that you are putting this on? > If so, often the laptop BIOSes are flakey and not very standard for > laptops so it looks like this might have a bug in it that is reporting > the root filesystem device incorrectly. If you have a GRUB prompt, > that means that the first stage of GRUB in on your harddrive but it > can't find the second stage. You should be able to fix things up using > the following GRUB documentation and might have to customize your map > file if your BIOS gives grub-install some bogus info to build your map > file from. > > See this link for more pointers: > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installing-GRUB- > natively > > Not a step by step solution by any means but might give you some hints > to get going. > > /Mike > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Jack Craig XPath/SAS Team Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 1600 Technology Dr. San Jose, CA 95110 408.333.7478 Direct E-mail: jcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx
