I'm not a grub user, but maybe some of this will be useful? Random Googles show this: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html#q11 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg05498.html http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2000-October/005259.html http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2000-October/005260.html http://linux-sxs.org/distros/gentooinstall.html (see #5) http://smtp.openna.com/pipermail/openna-users/2003-September/000044.html http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm.xml I'll stop now. Hopefully there's something useful in one of them. A few highlights include the following: IMPORTANT NOTE: if your *boot* partition is reiserfs, be sure to mount it with the "-o notail" option so GRUB gets properly installed. Make sure that "notail" ends up in your new /etc/fstab boot partition entry, too. 1. Install GRUB into the directory /boot/boot/grub instead of /boot/grub. This may sound ugly but should work fine. 2. Create a symbolic link before installing GRUB, like cd /boot && ln -s . boot. This works only if the filesystem of the boot partition supports symbolic links and GRUB supports the feature as well. 3. Install GRUB with the command install, to specify the paths of GRUB images explicitly. Here is an example: grub> root (hd0,1) grub> install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst -- Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml