GRUB Question SOLVED:

[John Summerfield]

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 October 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
>> John Pierce wrote:
>>> I booted into mandriva with my good stanza for it's kernel and
>>> reconfigured the boot loader with the installation going to /dev/sdb1
>>> which is the /boot partition.  With this configuration the following
>>> stanza worked:
>>>
>>> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>> rootnoverify (hd1)
> 
> For chaining to the MBR certainly use (hd1); for chaining to a boot sector on 
> a partition the (hd1,0) is correct, as grub isn't in the MBR in that case.  
> OP mentioned the boot was written to /dev/sda1, not the MBR on /dev/sda.
I quote from the original question:
"There was not an option to omit installing the boot loader, I let it 
install it on  sdb."

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