Incredible frustration at Grub/linux!

Hi all, I have been -trying- to setup a server with a '/' filesystem of 'reiserfs' for later use under LVM and some HA software but I have been absolutely unable to get past the starting gate and on top of feeling flat out stupid I am also getting terribly frustrated. I want to do one, little simple thing - make a backup of '/' to another drive/partition and then reboot using it. It seems that absolutely no matter what I do, what file I edit or what I try to force the system (Fedora Core 1) INSISTS on using the original '/' (in this case '/dev/sda1'). I don't what the heck I am doing wrong but I am about to blow a gasket. I have never been so fsck'ing mad at Linux before. Why is it so damn hard to mount a different '/' partition?! Anyway, I am using Grub because it is the only boot loader available on Fedora. I have tried reading the docs and am doing so again after sending this to see if I missed something simple... Bah, if nothing else this is a rant that may help me cool down enough to find my problem. Sorry for the noise. Madison -- 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
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