Colin Brace wrote: > I've tried various settings on the #boot line in menu.lst to no avail; > it keeps dropping me back in the grub prompt. > > At this point, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing; Any > suggestions would be most welcome. Why not try answering the grub prompt? Start with grub>root (hd0,1) and similar, and see which grub likes. Then grub>kernel /vm<tab> should offer various completions; add grub>kernel /vmlinuz... root=LABEL=/ or whatever the label is. (You have to use labelled partitions with F7, as far as I can see.) Then grub>initrd /init<tab> and finally grub>boot > Also, where did I go wrong? Was it a mistake to let the installer > configure (ie, update) Grub? I suspect the fault lies in anaconda - they seem to me to have screwed up the grub configuration. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
