installing grub with 1.4rc1

[augustwest]

ok, folks this is a hot topic, but i need the help. my boot partition is the first partition on my only hard disk. it is ext3......

i am at the grub> prompt........

im am trying to install grub into the mbr......

i do root (hd0,0) and get 'filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83

then i do setup (hd0) and get 'error 17: cannot mount selected partition"

ive installed grub before but not like this, im just following the gentoo documentation and trying not to do anything crafty cause i have a way of destroying things with my craftyness!

HELP
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[really]

have you done a mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 when installing?
check with cfdisk what it says, does it say /dev/hda1 ext3?
mount the /dev/hda1 /boot when chrooted into the your gentoo.
first check whats in your /boot then chechk if its mounted with mount, if it is not then remove all files In /boot then mount and emerge grub again and try install.
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[augustwest]

sorry folks, the first time around i did /boot as reiserfs and ment to change it to avoid problems. i actually forgot to this entirely so the problem is taken care of.

thanks
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