I used the Fedora rescue utility which has restored my grub menu BUT there is now some confusion between the location of my /boot partition and the location specified in the grub.conf file.

According to linux the /boot partition is on /dev/sda6 and in the grub.conf file I have root(hd0,6) but this gives grub error 17 when I select linux from the grub menu, so I edited the location and changed it to root(hd0,5) and I could boot into linux.

The question now is do I just change the grub.conf file to root(hd0,5) permanently or is this an indication that something is still wrong?
My /grub/device.map file has
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda

Is this correct?

I don't want to change it and at some point in the future after installing a new kernel have to go through the same problems again.
Thanks
Jay

Setting to root (hd0,5) in grub.conf is fine. The reason they differ is that because linux will start your first partition as, for example sda1, whereas grub will see it as hd0,0, here you can see the difference.

Edit grub to hd0,5 permanently for the location of your kernel and initial ramdisk and youll be good to go.

Ok thanks, I will do this it's just that I thought that before grub loads it runs some kind of 'chainloader+1' command so that it adds 1 to the value provided as the partition holding the boot files or is this only for booting windows?

Windows only, from what i think.

If you have grub installed in the linux distro partition then you can chainload that partition.

Here is a link to a tutorial where the author chainloaded 145 distros

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showt...hreadid=147959

Thanks for the link.