When you chroot into the drive, you probably need to run grub-install
against the device sda or whatever your disk is.
--
Glen Gray
slaine at slaine.org
On 19 Jun 2008, at 16:57, Michael Watterson wrote:
> Glen Gray wrote:
>> I've done it via the GUI mode once before and it just worked, so
>> I'm not sure what to say there.
>>>> Glad the text mode is working out ok.
>>>>> New problem
>> Completed Internet install for Fedora 8
>> but after linux decompresses at HDD boot
> Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
>> I tried CD recovery boot
> It "found" the Linux install and suggested I needed to chroot /mnt/
> sysimage and then exit to reboot
> (sounded unlikely and indeed no difference)
>> maybe at early point of install I should have not picked "delete
> everything" and do default scheme?
>> 40G PATA / IDE drive
>> Dell Dimension 4550 with 512M RAM
>> Any ideas folks?
>> --
> Mike
>
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