argh, grub woes

[Net Llama!]

On 11/24/2004 03:48 PM, Tom Jandl wrote:
> 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.

This definitely doesn't work.  Using hd0,2 instead of hd0,0 results in 
alot of errors about not finding stage1.  If i go back to using hd0,0 
then it finds stage1, stage2 and stage1_5, and appears to be happy until 
i try to boot beyond that, at which point it fails again.


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