Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora Core 3

[Net Llama!]

Actually, i wanted to know which filesystems you are using for hdb7 and
hdb8.

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> Hardware is a PIII.  Root and boot are /dev/hdb7 and /dev/hdb8
> Grub installed to the MBR, or I would not have seen "GRUB" on
> the monitor when it rebooted, right?
>
> How does grub know where to find its menu.lst?  Could that be
> related to it's being uncommunicative?
>
> ++ kevin
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:36:50 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
> <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> > 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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Lonni J Friedman                                netllama at linux-sxs.org
Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo                  http://netllama.ipfox.com