Grub stage1 file error

[Michael Schwendt]

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On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 22:10:00 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:

> Of course this is supposedly a fresh install of Fedora 2. The original 
> complaint is that the machine won't boot. There could be many reasons 
> why not and it seems very clear to me that partitioning and grub is 
> probably not at fault here. With a little thinking:

[let me make an exception to my rule and reply to a top post, it might
not happen again, though]

I don't agree at all with what you think is "very clear". Anaconda
allows manual partitioning where you can take over existing
partitions. You can even skip formatting existing partitions. You can
mke2fs a FAT16 partition. As mentioned earlier, Anaconda's
partitioning tool builds upon "parted" which doesn't evaluate
partition type flags, but examines the actual file-system on a
partition. Hence when fdisk says the partition type is FAT16 and
parted says the file-system on that partition is ext3, it's ext3 on a
FAT16 partition.

> The real problem is elsewhere and won't be solved with fdisk.

I disagree strongly. The OP should switch the partition type to
"Linux", so any tool -- e.g. a bootloader like GRUB which implements
native file-system access to load files -- is not confused. GRUB would
use a FAT driver to access an ext3 file-system.

IMO, this is *very* likely to be the problem. And yes, I've seen cases
of file-system/partiton-type confusion before.

- -- 
Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore.

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