grub vs. me

[Colin Brace]

Hi all,

I installed F9 preview several days ago. For some reason, I
encountered the same problem I did when going from FC6 to FC7;
anaconda hoses my grub config and I  get dumped to the grub prompt at
boot. I posted to the list about it then, and I looked the old thread
up for a solution when it happened again. For some reason, I can't
seem to fix menu.lst this time around.

At the moment, to boot Fedora, I type at the grub prompt:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vm...     root=/dev/sda3
initd /initrd...
boot

(... = tab autocomplete) This works fine. Below is my modified
menu.lst and the one created by anaconda

# grub.conf modified by me
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.25-1.fc9.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-1.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/sda3 rhgb
        initrd /initrd-2.6.25-1.fc9.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686 ro
root=UUID=5dce2cab-3f1b-45d7-b204-67f4b06516eb rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686.img

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdc3
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sdc
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686 ro
root=UUID=5dce2cab-3f1b-45d7-b204-67f4b06516eb rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686.img

Anyone seem something that I am missing? Also, why does anaconda keep
getting it wrong? AFIACT, it keeps thinking that sdc is my boot drive,
which is wrong. I would love to be able to fix things so future
installs don't require this rigamarole.

TIA

-- 
 Colin Brace
 Amsterdam
 http://lim.nl