Grub failing to work
Stuart Sears
stuart at sjsears.com
Sat Jun 17 10:07:54 UTC 2006
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Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> FedoraCore5_64
<snip>
1)
> On Konsole;
>
> # grub
> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
>
> GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
>
> [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word,
> TAB
> lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the
> possible
> completions of a device/filename.]
>
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> root (hd0,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> grub> setup (hd0,0)
>
> setup (hd0,0)
This might be your problem
here you are installing your first-stage bootloader to /dev/sda1
if you want to put it on the disk MBR, you need
setup (hd0)
Regards
Stuart
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Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX
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