FC5 fails to boot after install

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Apr 7 05:09:33 UTC 2006


Mike McCarty wrote:

[snip]

> GRUB needs to be configured to know where to look for that
> file, because of course, it can't read file systems until
> the code to read file systems is read in. This is done with
> the GRUB program (not to be confused with the GRUB boot code),

Ok, I realize that this statement is unforgivably vague. I mean
that GRUB must be configured to know the absolute location
on disc of stage 2, because it can't use file system access
until after reading in the code which understands file systems.

Mike
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