grub update

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Thu Apr 14 03:25:46 UTC 2005


John Botscharow wrote:
> "I think your problem is that you have a boot partition, but that
>  > partition is not getting mounted"
>  
> I mounted it at the beginning of the hard disk [MBR]. Should I have 
> mounted it elsewhere? BTW I do not presently have Fedora installed. But 
> I want to reinstall it as soon as I get this issue resolved..

If you are using LVM, the boot partition has to be on a regular partition.

Regarding overwriting the content that might be in /boot on the LVM (or 
a regular partition), it will not be visible when a partition is mounted 
  at this directory. I sometimes make a file in directories that are 
used for mountpoints with 'touch "Disk is not Mounted" and the file only 
shows when no device is mounted. (Got the idea from a book or online 
from another user, anyway, the content should be invisible when a device 
is mounted there.)

The MBR is an area of the disk that is not a partition. The Master Boot 
Record portion of the disk is pretty small and is not mountable. The 
exact makeup of the MBR portion of the disk is not known by me, but this 
is what I got that the MBR is.

Good luck with getting Fedora installed.

Jim

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