Grub - request

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 02:38, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Gerry Tool wrote:
> 
> > guran wrote:
> > 
> > >On Sunday 03 August 2003 04.18, Tom Diehl wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>In your original message you said something about grub now you are asking
> > >>about devfs and fb. I am confused :-(
> > >>
> > >>AFAIK RHL does not support devfs. It is generally more trouble than it is
> > >>worth. I do not know much if anything about fb. I have never messed with
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >I was trying to be short and not force other to read stuff that might not 
> > >interest them. Bet testing to me is to try to avoid future pb's, and when I 
> > >installed the Severn I did not see any possibility to save grub other than on 
> > >the mbr. I wanted grub to be written to the /boot directory so I could read 
> > >what it said.
> > >  
> > >
> > During the install, while setting up the boot loader, anaconda provides 
> > a button labeled something like "advanced options".  Clicking on that 
> > button gives you the option of installing grub to the boot partition 
> > rather than the MBR.  You can kater read what is their and include it 
> > into your grub.conf file that you are using.
> 
> You can also just edit /etc/grub.conf after the install.

This is not sufficient if you want to put GRUB into the superblock of
/boot (as opposed to the MBR of the disk). You would have to re-run
grub-install for that.

Nils
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