Fedora 3 Test 3

[Thomas J. Baker]

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
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