Nothing but problems upgrading to Fedora Core

[jludwig]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 13:55, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 18:11, Andre Costa wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 May 2004 11:06:08 -0400
> > Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > > Have also used GRUB since it became the default, and it has a lot more
> > > functionality than LILO at the cost of additional complexity.  Have
> >...snip...
> > 
> > Mmh... that sounds very interesting... this really looks like it could
> > solve my problem (for some reason, GRUB thinks boot partition is on
> > (hd0,2) even though it has been installed on (hd0,0) and /etc/grub.conf
> > has "root(hd0,0)" on it.
> 
> Why do you believe "GRUB thinks boot partition is on (hd0,2) even though
> it has been installed on (hd0,0)"?  If you run grub interactively as
> root, does it find things that should be in /boot on (hd0,2)?

Did you per chance accidentally copy a file(s) to the directory /boot on
/dev/sda3 (But not on the partition labeled boot [/dev/hda1])?

You could check by;
1) umount /boot 
2) ls -A /boot


                   / sda1
    / - - /boot --
  (sda3)           \ Some file confusing grub

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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>