On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, jackson byers wrote: >> I messed up installing F14 and don't know how to fix it. >> What I had planned to do was reuse a /boot partition and put the rest >> in a single new partition I had already created for the purpose. >> I forgot about the /boot partition and I think I told it the >> wrong thing when it asked where to put the bootloader.confusing "reuse > # grub> > root (hd1,8) > setup (hd1,8) > quit > > this should install the bootloader on 1st sector of sdb9 > reboot, > see if f14 boots Alas, F13. I suspect that the problem might be that putting a bootloader in (hd1,8) doesn't make the startup code (BIOS?) use it. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines