Re: BOIS Blues again

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On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 11:28 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Here is what worked for years: The Grub was on disk hd0 and Linux 
> was on hd0,0 thru 6 and hd1,0 thru 7. The BIOS could find all the Linux 
> /boot/grub/ without fail.
> 
>     Now I have just one hard drive all set in the BIOS setup and I went 
> up in the F7 Rescue cd and told grub the following:
> 
> Grub> root (hd0,5)
> Grub> setup (hd0)
> Grub> quit
> 
> This worked according to the written info from grub. But It would not 
> work. I would get a bios error.
> 
>     So I installed FC6 basic in the (hd0,0) partition and it worked 
> fine. Then I added the directions to this F7 and of course Grub found 
> it. Here I am again on the old computer.
This would work only if the grub boot block was partition 5 and you had
another boot loader that would know to go to partition 5 to look for the
grub boot block. I can't believe you read instructions that told you to
do this.
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