On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Michael Hennebry wrote:
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.
I tried adding title chain14 rootnoverify (hd1,8) makeactive chainloader +1 to grub.conf . When I tried to use it, I got Error 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.
Could the problem with using my boot partition with my F14 be that my F14 knows something else is /boot ? Could I fix that by editing my F14's /etc/mtab ?