Grub clarification

[Daniel B. Thurman]

>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Karl Larsen
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:14 PM
>To: For users of Fedora
>Subject: Re: Grub clarification
>
>
>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.
>> [snip!]  
>    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
>

Well, only ONCE was I able to get GRUB to fall into a command-line
mode, and from there, manually typing in:

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
grub> boot

And the system came up.  It worked.  But since I could not figure
out how to make this change so that it boots automatically, I started
over and ever since I did that, all I got from then on was a black
screen with GRUB at the top-left corner of my monitor.  *sigh*

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