Fedora 3 Test 3

[TGS]

Hmm, might be, but it does not sound user friendly to me.


on 10/16/2004 10:16 AM, James W. Bennett at silverhead at comcast.net wrote:

> Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 18:16 -0500, James W. Bennett wrote:
>>  
>> 
>>> It has become apparent to me if the grub boot loader does not get
>>> properly installed  you really have a big problem.  Since the kernel is
>>> too big to fit on a floppy you have no choice but to  do a 'linux
>>> rescue'. On test 3,  linux rescue will not work to install grub
>>> manually. Because of udev, the dev directory is not loaded  during linux
>>> rescue.  The block devices are not mounted.  I hope this will be fixed
>>> before the final release.  I would like during installation to  have the
>>> ability to write the grub  boot loader to a floppy. This would be a
>>> great feature.
>>> 
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>> MAKDEV is included though so you can manually make the devices you need.
>> After chroot'ing to your installation, MAKDEV sd or MAKEDEV hd will give
>> you the devices you need to run grub-install.
>> 
>> tjb
>>  
>> 
> Excellent suggustion- works very well
> Thanks