(no subject) [GRUB boot problems]

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Wed Jan 14 15:42:05 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:22, Paolo wrote:
>snip<
> Phil,
> I tried to boot the machine with a boot disk (mkbootdisk kernel-version)
> but it failed to boot.
> Same problem with the bootdisk I made during the Fedora installation.
> 
> The error message is:
> boot failed: please change disk and press a key to continue.
> 
> It appears aftwer a few seconds the kernel start to boot.
> 
> Feel free to mail me if you need more information.
> 
> Thanks a lot. Really.
> 
> Ciao

Paolo,

You need to make and use a grub boot floppy, as described in my last
post (or "info grub"), not an install or syslinux boot disk.

Phil







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