argh, grub woes

[Net Llama!]

On 11/25/2004 08:18 AM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 25 November 2004 10:49 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Sounds like you tried   root  (hd0,2)     and that wouldn't be right.
> 
> root (hd0,0)    should point to your /boot  partition
> kernel /vmlinuz.......  root=/dev/hda3    would be right
> initrd /initrd.....   for the current initrd.
> 
> Sounds like you should boot knoppix and do a re-install of grub.  When it gets 
> stuck on stage1 it really can't find all of its part....   Have you changed 
> partitions since grub was first installed?

Nothing has changed, other than me upgrading from FC2 to FC3.  I'm able 
to boot into FC3 if i manually enter the root, kernel & initrd lines at 
the grub> prompt.

If i attempt to run:
grub-install /dev/hda

I see:
/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.

My device.map file only has an entry for:
(fd0)	/dev/fd0

could that be the problem?


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