Les Mikesell wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
There is nothing but Linux on this computer. That is not the
problem. The problem is Grub on F7. It goes through the motions of
setting itself up but fails!
It doesn't fail - you just told it to install somewhere that your
bios isn't loading. Normally what you want to do for alternate
booting is install grub in the boot sector of your first hard drive
with /boot as the 1st partition. You can install alternate kernels
and initrd images there and set up a choice of which to load and
which partition to set up as root - or you can chain-load another
boot loader in a different partition.
I'm sorry Les your still full of it. I just rebooted to FC6 and
there I put the proper stage on my new hard drive and now it boots up
for the first time without the old 30 GB hard drive. The Grub on F7
is bad and I will work with it a bit and then write a bug report on
what is wrong.
If you'd post some actual error messages instead of yelling that the
sky is falling every time something goes wrong, someone else might
know what is happening. Are you saying that the exact same install
(setup) of grub from an fc6 is now able to boot your fc7 from the same
disk location where the fc7 grub install failed or are you now booting
a new install of the kernel from a different location? Did the first
attempt give you a grub> prompt or fail to boot anything at all?
I'm sorry Les you can't even read it appears. As I said elsewhere
earlier I tried to get it working on this F7 by doing this:
# grub> root (hd1,5)
# grub> setup (hd0)
After this I rebooted and could not get back to F7.
To get back I had to re-install the old hard drive which has the proper MBR.
Then I tried from the f7 rescue DVD and had exactly the same failure.
Then I rebooted to FC6 and in a root terminal did the above and it
wrote the boot record to the new hard drive for the very first time!
So you see Grub on f7 is buggy
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
