On Thursday 18 October 2007, John Summerfield wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > 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. > > I quote from the original question: > "There was not an option to omit installing the boot loader, I let it > install it on sdb." Please reread the quoted portion from John Pierce above. He changed to installing grub to /dev/sdb1; (hd1,0) is correct for that case. For the case of grub going to /dev/sdb, yes, (hd1) is correct. And, furthermore, he stated that it WORKED as (hd1,0). -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
