>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Karl Larsen >Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:14 PM >To: For users of Fedora >Subject: Re: Grub clarification > > >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. >> [snip!] > 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 > Well, only ONCE was I able to get GRUB to fall into a command-line mode, and from there, manually typing in: grub> root (hd0,0) grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img grub> boot And the system came up. It worked. But since I could not figure out how to make this change so that it boots automatically, I started over and ever since I did that, all I got from then on was a black screen with GRUB at the top-left corner of my monitor. *sigh* No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.13/1165 - Release Date: 12/2/2007 8:34 PM
