Fedora 3 Test 3
James W. Bennett
silverhead at comcast.net
Sat Oct 16 14:16:27 UTC 2004
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
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