Grub clarification

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 10:53 -0800, 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
> 
> 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
Are you sure it did not offer your the option to put the boot loader in
the MBR of /dev/sda?
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition. 
> Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.13/1165 - Release Date: 12/2/2007 8:34 PM
>  
> 
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