argh, grub woes

[Tom Jandl]

Net Llama! wrote:
> Just upgraded my wife's laptop from FC2 to FC3, and now when i boot I 
> get dumped to a 'grub>' prompt that just sits there waiting for me to do 
> something.
> 
> Running:
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> 
> spits out what looks to be good output (no errors, everything seems to 
> install), however rebooting takes me back to the same point all over 
> again.  I was using grub before the upgrade, so i'm at a bit of a loss 
> as to what is wrong here.
> 
> Booting with KNOPPIX shows me what also looks to be a sane 
> /etc/grub.conf, so i'm at a loss as to why its not booting the damn box 
> instead of going out to lunch every time.
> 
> There is a single ide drive in this laptop, /dev/hda where:
> /dev/hda1 = /boot
> /dev/hda2 = swap
> /dev/hda3 = /
> /dev/hda4 = win2k
> 
> Help!?
> 
If /dev/hda3=/  then root (hd0,2) should be correct. Looks like its 
looking for the root partition files in the boot partition.

Tom