Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I am trying to install F8 onto my old system and having
trouble getting grub to find the drive. Here is the story.
I have removed all drives except the one drive I am attempting
to install F8 on.
I was able to get the F8-Live to work but apparently I must
be doing something wrong when it comes to custom
partitioning screen.
I defined my partitions as:
/dev/sda1 /boot 75MB
/dev/sda2 / 13GB
/dev/sda3 swap 1GB
Since you will not give us what I asked for, here is what you should
have. Your grub.conf is in partition /dev/sda1. Your system is in
partition /dev/sda2.
In your grub.conf you must have:
root (hd0)
vmlinux root=/dev/sda2
and in /etc/fstab you must have a line like this: (from memory)
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
If your stuff looks like this and still does not work, write us again.
Karl
I committed the partitions, but when it comes to the grub
configuration screen, it shows:
[o] The GRUB boot loader will be installed on /dev/sda
Default Label Device
x fedora /dev/sda2
Taking the defaults w/o any changes, I proceed and completed
the installation.
On reboot, GRUB fails to find the drive.
Am I doing something wrong?
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