GRUB Question SOLVED:

[Lamar Owen]

On Wednesday 17 October 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
> John Pierce wrote:
> > I booted into mandriva with my good stanza for it's kernel and
> > reconfigured the boot loader with the installation going to /dev/sdb1
> > which is the /boot partition.  With this configuration the following
> > stanza worked:
> >
> > rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>
> rootnoverify (hd1)

For chaining to the MBR certainly use (hd1); for chaining to a boot sector on 
a partition the (hd1,0) is correct, as grub isn't in the MBR in that case.  
OP mentioned the boot was written to /dev/sda1, not the MBR on /dev/sda.
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