Re: grub repartition problem

[David Balazic]

Bryan Dunn wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
>         I made a mistake. I had installed red hat 8 on my laptop and had
> everything working fine with the grub boot loader. I took the default
> install (and I'm not sure where that installs grub). To give myself more
> swap, I repartitioned my HD, causing /dev/hd6, which was my linux
> partition, to move to /dev/hda10. Now when I boot, grub thinks that
> /dev/hda6 (hd0,5) is the boot partition, which it is not. I have to
> maually give it the boot partition (root (hd0,9)) and then a config file
> (/boot/grub/grub.conf). My grub.conf has the correct settings, but upon
> boot, I think grub tries to read another config file. What do I need to
> do to save my settings in grub so when I boot, it just gives me the
> splash screen? I thought the default install put grub in /dev/hda1
> (which is a windows partiton) and not the MBR, am I mistaken?

/boot/grub/grub.conf ?
/boot/grub/device.map ?

Do you have only one disk in the system ?

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David Balazic
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