[plug] grub-install

[Jim Householder]

Jim Householder wrote:
> While reorganising my hardware, I moved my FC4 disk from hda to hdb.  I 
> now need to install grub on hda.  The man and info pages are not very 
> helpful here.
> 
> 'grub-install /dev/hda' looks like it will install ok, but how do I tell 
> it grub.conf is on /dev/hdb5?  If I specify a root-directory, will it 
> follow the path through /etc/fstab to find it?
> 
Sorry to reply to my own.  Should have Googled first.  The Red Hat site 
has a good explanation of things.  I had forgotten that grub's view of 
the world is quite different to linux's.  Its 'root directory' is the 
directory containing grub itself.

Jim