Installing grub for a different computer

[Kevin Freeman]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 21:36 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Freeman <kfreem02 at comcast.net> writes:
>     Kevin> 3) your / partition is at least partially
>     Kevin> corrupt
> 
> Well, that seems likely.
> 
>     Kevin> Try modifying the root= parameter of grub's kernel config.
>     Kevin> If you did a stock FC1 install, try root=LABEL=/.
>     Kevin> Otherwise, just try root=/dev/hda1 through root=/dev/hda5.
>     Kevin> One of them has to work!
> 
> Why? If the / partition is partly corrupted, why should it work at
> all?

Since you were able to mount the partitions when the drive was installed
in the other PC, I thought corruption would be unlikely.

>From Toms Root Boot diskette you can run e2fsck to determine the state
of the filesystem.

Kevin Freeman