First let me give a round of thanks to everyone so far. The problem turned out to lie in my misunderstanding of how the configuration of GRUB worked, so now GRUB is working just fine.
I did end up recompiling the kernel, but that was probably not needed. (I learned the error of my ways after starting the recompile and leaving for a weekend convnetion...) So, I now have a new problem on my hands. It appears as if drives aren't mounting correctly. For /dev/SWAP/ /dev/ROOT/ and /dev/BOOT/ I'm getting the error message, "Can't locate module". fsk.ext2 no such file pr firectory while trying to open /dev/SWAP/ (Or ROOT or BOOT) If I log in as root at this point, and manually mount the drives, I can then succesfully boot the system. (Although it's worth noting that if I give the root password /ROOT *is* found when I do a "df". It's possible I mangled the reporting of the errors, as they flew by the screen too quickly for me to catch everything, even after rebooting wile having a pen in hand taking notes...) I assume the error lies somewhere in fstab, which is a file I don't understand. I don't see a place to mark the first column with the hard drive parititons, so perhaps it happens elsewhere. On a different install, by using /dev/hdb1 (or whatever), I somehow managed to mount a partition in two locations... So I'm missing some knowledge, most likely. I left /etc/fstab as the default configuration, as it seemed to be what I needed. My partitions are set up as: /dev/hda1 -> boot /dev/hda2 -> swap /dev/hda3 -> extra (not mentioned, but when I do understand this, I'd like to put it in fstab as well.) /dev/hdb1 -> / Then again, perhaps fstab is correct, and the problem lies in another subsystem/file that I don't grok. So if people have any suggestions on where to go from here, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
