Grub failing to work

Stuart Sears stuart at sjsears.com
Sat Jun 17 10:07:54 UTC 2006


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Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> FedoraCore5_64
<snip>
 1)
> On Konsole;
> 
> # grub
> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
> 
> 	GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
> 
>  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word,
> TAB
>    lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the
> possible
>    completions of a device/filename.]
> 
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> grub> setup (hd0,0)
> 
> setup (hd0,0)
This might be your problem
here you are installing your first-stage bootloader to /dev/sda1
if you want to put it on the disk MBR, you need
setup (hd0)


Regards

Stuart
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Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX

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