Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora Core 3
Ken Moffat
kmoffat
Wed Nov 10 06:36:29 PST 2004
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>I tried installing FC3 today, and everything looked smooth until the
>reboot at the end.
>All my screen showed was "GRUB", and I couldn't get anything to happen
>beyond that.
>I used rescue to go back to the previous release, which used LILO. I
>understand LILO,
>so I'm okay there. It was a whim to try grub on this new thing, and I
>was (foolishly?)
>assuming that the installer would do The Right Thing(TM).
>
>The new root partition was to be /dev/hdb7 -- I didn't think that
>should be a great
>stretch. Silly me.
>
>If I do this again, I guess I'd better know some stuff about grub.
>Where's the best
>place to learn?
>
>++ kevin
>
>
>
Also see "update-grub", which creates a /boot/grub/menu.lst file, which
is what you edit to change your boot options.
--
ken
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