Description of problem: grub did not install to /dev/sda when installing FC 6 test 3 (over http) but it didn't give me an error message during the fedora install. I only found out when I rebooted and it went into Windows instead of giving me a grub menu. Additional info: I'm using a new Dell precision 690 workstation with two hard drives. I'm keeping windows on the first and putting linux on the second. I made a grub floppy using knoppix (which I think results in grub 0.97) and tried to install grub to /dev/sda after booting from that floppy, and it gave me an error message: setup (hd0) Error 7: Cannot mount selected partition so I assume this is a grub problem. After booting with the grub floppy, I was able to load the configuration file and boot from the resulting menu okay, so that part of the installation of grub went fine.
I had similiar problems with FC6T2 and FC6T3, but I have an oddball setup: /boot is /dev/hdc1 / is /dev/hda2 /dev/hda1, 99 MB, is unused There is no /dev/hdb For Test2, I think there was just a "GRUB" showing at the top of my screen after I booted. I had to boot from a CD in order to get GRUB set up correctly. With Test3, I got the grub prompt, so I was able to find /grub/stage1 root (hd1,0) setup (hd0) to work around the problem. On this system, I use a hard disk installation from /dev/hdc7.
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