F12 Won't boot on Linux only MacBook

[miles]

F12 Live CD boots and runs fine. I installed to hard drive and now get:

Grub loading.
error: unknown filesystem
grub rescue> _
(it is hung - I cannot type any commands here)

I think I somehow have to use root and setup but don't remember and can't find specifics

if I boot on CD, go to terminal, use su - and then enter grub and try:
> find /boot/grub/stage1 - I get file not found

I don't have my OSX disk with me and don't want OSX on the system. I also prefer not to use refit but have a refit rescue disk with me. thks for any help

[narasim_7]

What was the partitioning scheme you used during the install? Did you have any linux distro installed before on the same machine?

[miles]

What was the partitioning scheme you used during the install? Did you have any linux distro installed before on the same machine?

/sda
/sda1 /boot
/sda2 /
/sda3 /home
/extended
/sda5 /swap

came from ubuntu (we had problem before with it trashing mbr on macbook) - needed to reset boot but I can't remember how we did it.

[narasim_7]

Is your boot partition on ext3/ext2 ? I guess grub (atleast the installed through fedora) won't boot unless it is either of the two, I could be wrong here though

[miles]

Is your boot partition on ext3/ext2 ? I guess grub (atleast the installed through fedora) won't boot unless it is either of the two, I could be wrong here though

/boot is ext4 as defaulted in F12 so grub should be there from F12 as well

ps (I actually tried the old way of using ext3 for /boot - but that gave same broken result)

has more to do with efi hard drive

[miles]

/boot is ext4 as defaulted in F12 so grub should be there from F12 as well

ps (I actually tried the old way of using ext3 for /boot - but that gave same broken result)

has more to do with efi hard drive

**** FIXED *****

mentioned elsewhere - just had to put pieces together

boot with Live CD
open up terminal
su - (becomes root)
# grub
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> quit

reboot => fedora goodness