Alternative booting
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sat Aug 18 16:27:43 UTC 2007
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 09:46 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>> Grub is bad period! I used a rescue cd and when up I typed grub and
>>> it came up after a while and I typed this:
>>>
>>> grub> root (hd1,5)
>>>
>> Your boot partition is the fifth one? Remember, this "root" is for the
>> "/boot" partition, not the system "/" root.
>>
>>
> It could be - I believe the installer defaults to using all logical
> partitions if there is another OS on the drive.
>
> Mikkel
>
There is nothing but Linux on this computer. That is not the
problem. The problem is Grub on F7. It goes through the motions of
setting itself up but fails!
Grub is bad.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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