Alternative booting

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>>>>    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!
>>>
>>> It doesn't fail - you just told it to install somewhere that your 
>>> bios isn't loading.  Normally what you want to do for alternate 
>>> booting is install grub in the boot sector of your first hard drive 
>>> with /boot as the 1st partition.  You can install alternate kernels 
>>> and initrd images there and set up a choice of which to load and 
>>> which partition to set up as root - or you can chain-load another 
>>> boot loader in a different partition.
>>>
>>    I'm sorry Les your still full of it. I just rebooted to FC6 and 
>> there I put the proper stage on my new hard drive and now it boots up 
>> for the first time without the old 30 GB hard drive. The Grub on F7 
>> is bad and I will work with it a bit and then write a bug report on 
>> what is wrong.
>
> If you'd post some actual error messages instead of yelling that the 
> sky is falling every time something goes wrong, someone else might 
> know what is happening.  Are you saying that the exact same install 
> (setup) of grub from an fc6 is now able to boot your fc7 from the same 
> disk location where the fc7 grub install failed or are you now booting 
> a new install of the kernel from a different location?  Did the first 
> attempt give you a grub> prompt or fail to boot anything at all?
>
    I'm sorry Les you can't even read it appears. As I said elsewhere 
earlier I tried to get it working on this F7 by doing this:

# grub> root (hd1,5)
# grub> setup (hd0)

After this I rebooted and could not get back to F7.

To get back I had to re-install the old hard drive which has the proper MBR.

     Then I tried from the f7 rescue DVD and had exactly the same failure.

    Then I rebooted to FC6 and in a root terminal did the above and it 
wrote the boot record to the new hard drive for the very first time!

So you see Grub on f7 is buggy


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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