Installation of FC6 does not boot
Tim
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Sun Feb 18 05:36:45 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 14:51 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> I had instructed the installation process to install GRUB in hda (the
> disk where Windows XP was), but, contrary to my instruction,
> apparently, no GRUB installation was performed in hda.
Seemed that way on a friend's computer, too.
> I also suspect that the installation routine is not correctly written
> regarding this issue.
'twas my conclusion, too.
> An by the way: how could one manually install GRUB in hda?
See the grub info file for details, but in a nutshell:
Boot a rescue disc.
When you get a console, type in: grub
(if grub can't be found, you might have "cd" around 'till
you find where it's stored)
Inside this new GRUB shell, type: root (hd1,0)
(or wherever *your* /boot partition is)
Then type: find (hd1,0)/grub/stage1
(that'll check that it can find what it needs where you told it to look)
Then type: setup (hd0)
(that'll set up the bootblock)
Finally, type: quit
(which finalises things, as well as exits)
I suspect that anybody trying to avoid a /boot *partition* and just use
a boot directory, is going to be in a bit of a bind for dual booting or
with hardware that doesn't handle large discs very well.
--
(This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's
important to the thread.)
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