[ILUG] Grub - Fedora Macbook

[Ciaran Power]

Conor,

I don't know anything about MacBooks, but that grub configuration sounds 
wrong to me. The root device for your Fedora install should be (hd0,2) 
[not (hd0,3)] - grub counts from 0. Grub's 'root' is the boot partition, 
AFAIK (leave the kernel root=whatever line alone). I'm surprised that 
the Fedora installer would set it up incorrectly though.

Thanks,
Ciaran


Conor Mac Aoidh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a bit of a problem with my Fedora 12 installation on my new
> macbook pro. I have installed twice. First I followed the instructions on
> manual partition layout here:
>
> http://www.cenolan.com/2009/06/installing-fedora-11-on-a-macbook/
>
> That installation wouldn't boot post-install. The second time I used the
> default fedora partitioning settings. I got the exact same error as the
> first attempt which is something along the lines of: "No boot medium found,
> please insert a bootable disk".
>
> I installed rEFIt before I attempted to install anything. After both
> installs rEFIt recognised the fedora installation, but it still would not
> boot.
>  My partition layout is as follows:
>
> /dev/sda1 // rEFIt
> /dev/sda2 // 20 GB HFS+
> /dev/sda3 // /boot ext4
> /dev/sda4 // / ext4 460GB
> /dev/sda5 // linux swap 5 GB
>
> there is also 20GB free space somehwhere which I intend to install Windows
> on, I need a program called Solid Works for my Leaving Cert.
>
> I opened the grub.conf file with a live disk and it appears that all is ok.
> It points towards root(hd0,3) which looks alright to me.
>
> Can anyone see any solution to my problems?
>
> Thanks
>