Re: Fedora Core 5 install

Some Other Somebody Else wrote:
On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:16:01 GMT, Patrick <patfogle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Some Other Somebody Else wrote:

On Mon, 15 May 2006 01:59:12 GMT, Patrick <patfogle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



Hey all,
I'm having a similar problem with my FC5 install. It never gave me any options for where it was going to install the bootloader.

[...] If I install it to the main hard drive (hda) it boots fine, if I install it to any other drive (either Hdb, or HDD, hdC is a cd rom drive) it won't install the boot loader on hda...


In that case, it should be possible to install the bootloader on hda
from the rescue shell. For example, if you installed Fedora on
/dev/hdb1, then you could boot the installer in rescue mode, run
/mnt/sysimage/sbin/grub, and then enter the following on the command
line:

root (hd1,0)
setup (hd0)

"/mnt/sysimage/sbin/grub-install" might work too, but using grub
directly is probably more reliable if you know where you installed the
system.
When I run grub-install it tells me it can't find HDA in the fstab, or it can't find the fstab file.
.

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