Alternative booting

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> Tim wrote:
>>>  
>>>> On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 09:46 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> Grub is bad period! I used a rescue cd and when up I typed grub 
>>>>> and it came up after a while and I typed this:
>>>>>
>>>>> grub> root (hd1,5)       
>>>> Your boot partition is the fifth one?  Remember, this "root" is for 
>>>> the
>>>> "/boot" partition, not the system "/" root.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>> It could be - I believe the installer defaults to using all logical
>>> partitions if there is another OS on the drive.
>>>
>>> Mikkel
>>>   
>>    There is nothing but Linux on this computer. That is not the 
>> problem. The problem is Grub on F7. It goes through the motions of 
>> setting itself up but fails!
>
> It doesn't fail - you just told it to install somewhere that your bios 
> isn't loading.  Normally what you want to do for alternate booting is 
> install grub in the boot sector of your first hard drive with /boot as 
> the 1st partition.  You can install alternate kernels and initrd 
> images there and set up a choice of which to load and which partition 
> to set up as root - or you can chain-load another boot loader in a 
> different partition.
>
    I'm sorry Les your still full of it. I just rebooted to FC6 and 
there I put the proper stage on my new hard drive and now it boots up 
for the first time without the old 30 GB hard drive. The Grub on F7 is 
bad and I will work with it a bit and then write a bug report on what is 
wrong.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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