Jim Cornette wrote: >> Now, I am coping with other problem. I have obviously created by the >> rescue cd a new initrd image with the usb storage drivers. It is GRUB >> that does not work. When I try to boot from the USB disk, only the word >> GRUB appears on the screen and the systems freezes, albeit I have told >> the Fedora installer to install grub on /dev/sda (and not /dev/hda). >> So, can you suggest me a simple but good manual of grub ? I probably >> have to reconfigure it, but I can do it from a working FC5 on hda... I >> tryed to chroot to the FC6 on usb disk and launched grub-install >> /dev/sda, but this is not the correct way :| > > No ideas of where to hunt for information on getting a USB device > booting properly. I was counting on the developers getting USB installs > to just work without a lot of fuss. After all, what are we paying them > for? :-) > I have solved that issue, too. :) Basically, I have regenerated the device map in grub, issued a grub-install, and then I had to reconfig the grub.conf when booting (of course, I have regenerated the initrd image including the usb-storage drivers) in the grub-shell minieditor. If someone is intrested, I can post the step-by-step procedure. Now I writing this email by the USB-disk booted FC6 prerelease.... :) Thanks to everyone, Andrea -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
