Re: [ANNOUNCE] Red Hat Linux 9 XFS DVD Released

[Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kai Leibrandt wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> > There is a bug with using GRUB as a bootloader. Either use 
> > LILO or use one of the following workarounds:
>
>
> <SNIPPED workaround for grub bug>
>
> Or what you can do to fix grub is:
>
> 1) install, ignoring the grub bug
> 2) reboot into rescue mode from the DVD
> 3) mount your root partition _only_
> 4) chroot to that directory
> 5) mount /boot
> 6) grub-install /dev/hda, or whatever your boot disk is
> 7) reboot.
>
> This works perfectly, at least with the 1.2 installer CD for 8.0; it
> seems to me a lot simpler as nothing had be written down (and those
> spaces are a bugger!) and typed in correctly.

So what you're saying is that you basically copied my instructions
except for the part where you run grub-install instead of running
grub yourself :) If you read it carefully you'll notice that I wrote
all the other steps the same way except I wrote HOW to do stuff.
I'm not sure 100% of the userbase knows how to "chroot to that
directory" when you haven't even told them WHAT directory to chroot
to.

// Stefan