On Wednesday 17 October 2007, John Summerfield wrote: > John Pierce wrote: > > I booted into mandriva with my good stanza for it's kernel and > > reconfigured the boot loader with the installation going to /dev/sdb1 > > which is the /boot partition. With this configuration the following > > stanza worked: > > > > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > > rootnoverify (hd1) For chaining to the MBR certainly use (hd1); for chaining to a boot sector on a partition the (hd1,0) is correct, as grub isn't in the MBR in that case. OP mentioned the boot was written to /dev/sda1, not the MBR on /dev/sda. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
