Grub clarification

[Karl Larsen]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> I am trying to install F8 onto my old system and having
> trouble getting grub to find the drive. Here is the story.
>
> I have removed all drives except the one drive I am attempting
> to install F8 on.
>
> I was able to get the F8-Live to work but apparently I must
> be doing something wrong when it comes to custom
> partitioning screen.
>
> I defined my partitions as:
>
> /dev/sda1	/boot	75MB
> /dev/sda2	/	13GB
> /dev/sda3	swap	1GB
>
>   
    Since you will not give us what I asked for, here is what you should 
have. Your grub.conf is in partition /dev/sda1. Your system is in 
partition /dev/sda2.

    In your grub.conf you must have:

root (hd0)

          vmlinux root=/dev/sda2

and in /etc/fstab you must have a line like this: (from memory)

/dev/sda1         /boot         ext3       defaults    1  2

    If your stuff looks like this and still does not work, write us again.

Karl



> I committed the partitions, but when it comes to the grub
> configuration screen, it shows:
>
> [o]	The GRUB boot loader will be installed on /dev/sda
>
> Default     Label      Device
> x             fedora     /dev/sda2
>
> Taking the defaults w/o any changes, I proceed and completed
> the installation.
>
> On reboot,  GRUB fails to find the drive.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
>
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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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