Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora Core 3

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 9 Nov 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.

What kind of hardware are you using?  Also, what filesystem(s) did you
select for / and /boot ?

>
> If I do this again, I guess I'd better know some stuff about grub.
> Where's the best
> place to learn?

sorry, can't help you here.  i'm a LILO devotee myself.  There's nothing
really stopping you from installing LILO in FC3 post install, or from
Knoppix (or similar live CD).

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