Fedora 3 Test 3

[James W. Bennett]

Thomas J. Baker wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 18:16 -0500, James W. Bennett wrote:
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>>It has become apparent to me if the grub boot loader does not get 
>>properly installed  you really have a big problem.  Since the kernel is 
>>too big to fit on a floppy you have no choice but to  do a 'linux 
>>rescue'. On test 3,  linux rescue will not work to install grub 
>>manually. Because of udev, the dev directory is not loaded  during linux 
>>rescue.  The block devices are not mounted.  I hope this will be fixed 
>>before the final release.  I would like during installation to  have the 
>>ability to write the grub  boot loader to a floppy. This would be a 
>>great feature.
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>MAKDEV is included though so you can manually make the devices you need.
>After chroot'ing to your installation, MAKDEV sd or MAKEDEV hd will give
>you the devices you need to run grub-install.
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>tjb
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Excellent suggustion- works very well
Thanks