cannot boot to F14

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, jackson byers wrote:

>> I messed up installing F14 and don't know how to fix it.
>> What I had planned to do was reuse a /boot partition and put the rest
>> in a single new partition I had already created for the purpose.
>> I forgot about the /boot partition and I think I told it the
>> wrong thing when it asked where to put the bootloader.confusing "reuse

> # grub>
> root (hd1,8)
> setup (hd1,8)
> quit
>
> this should install the bootloader on 1st sector of sdb9
> reboot,
> see if f14 boots

Alas, F13.
I suspect that the problem might be that putting a bootloader
in (hd1,8) doesn't make the startup code (BIOS?) use it.

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