Claudio Roberto França Pereira <spide...@gmail.com> writes: > From the first post, you've ran, under grub, setup (hd0,0). This > installs grub on the first partition boot loader, you want to install > it on the DISK boot loader, on the MBR. Maybe gparted fixed that for > you. The correct way would be to run: > root (hd0,0) //indicate where grub stage 1.5 and 2 are. > setup (hd0) //install grub's stage 1 on the MBR.
That was a nice catch ... I sure did F___ this up from beginning to end. Relying on memory let me do setup (hd0,0) which like you say is really wrong. And what makes it worse is that the install documentation tells you exactly what to run... I didn't even look, just thought I `remembered' > About the second error, the kernel is definitely detecting your sata > controller, the partitions are all there. It seems that you missed to > append the root=/dev/sda3 to the kernel parameters, under grub.conf. Another good catch, and I caught it too, at some point. > In the end, I'd recommend disabling ext2 fs support in the kernel too, > and use ext4 to mount ext2 and ext3 file systems. Why is that?
