GRUB Question SOLVED:
Lamar Owen
lowen at pari.edu
Fri Oct 19 14:10:35 UTC 2007
On Thursday 18 October 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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."
Please reread the quoted portion from John Pierce above. He changed to
installing grub to /dev/sdb1; (hd1,0) is correct for that case. For the case
of grub going to /dev/sdb, yes, (hd1) is correct. And, furthermore, he
stated that it WORKED as (hd1,0).
--
Lamar Owen
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