Matt, <matt@themattfella.zzzz.com>, the downcast, substandard fruitcake, and
keeper of service animals, choked out:

> Mike wrote:
>> I installed WinXP, Slackware, and Fedora Core.
>
> My uninformed guess is that Fedora was confused by the use of RAID and
> wrote grub.conf incorrectly.
>
> 1) Were you able to boot Slackware before installing Fedora?
>
> 2) GRUB has a pretty good manual that is only something like eight
> pages long. Get familiar that and make a stand-alone generic GRUB
> boot floppy or CD (maybe you have to dd or rawrite a floppy or CD
> image?). Boot that and get to know the interactive GURB system. It
> has facilities for listing the contents of disk partitions. You
> should be able to boot XP easily from the GRUB prompt. See that you
> understand GRUB's nomenclature for referring to drives and partitions
> and files. Then see that the contents of grub.conf is consistent
> with that.

Wouldn't it be fucking sweet if grub was consistent with everything else,
eh. They should name it GRUBB. GRand Unified Bullshit Bootloader, with
fucked up disk referencing. I suppose that's what happens with totally
aimless software... some cunt goes off the rails and everyone else has to
follow. Oh well, that's Open Source for you.

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