Grub clarification

[Daniel B. Thurman]

>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Gordon Messmer
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:50 PM
>To: For users of Fedora
>Subject: Re: Grub clarification
>
>
>Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> 
>> Taking the defaults w/o any changes, I proceed and completed
>> the installation.
>> 
>> On reboot,  GRUB fails to find the drive.
>
>Before you rebooted, you should have been able to switch to a shell to 
>examine the installed system.  If you can mount that drive, 
>you should. 
>  Otherwise, get to the shell to check the contents of 
>/boot/grub/device.map.  What's in there?
>
>What's the full text of grub's error?
>
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The device map shows:
(hd0)	/dev/sda

When booted, there is a black screen with
4 letters at the top-left corner: GRUB


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