Re: Grub installation

Hi,

You should use "root (hd1,0)" in "menu.lst", it points to the second
harddisc.

  Regards / Per-Erik

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 22:15, Steve White wrote:
> I was reading through he archives and found several posts regarding grub
> installation problems.  I too have this problem and am in search of what I
> need to do different to fix this.  My first drive (hd0,0) is a win2000 disk
> and the second drive (hd1,0) is the gentoo disk.  when running grub I got an
> error about unrecognized partition.  This occurred when I tried to run root
> (hd0,0).
> 
> What do I need to change here?  My partitions are ext3 /dev/hdb1,3 and swap
> on /dev/hdb2.
> 
> I think I'll have to boot from the installation CD and do the chroot
> commands listed in the install docs - right?  I pretty new in to gentoo, but
> have played around with other distributions with some success.
> 
> Should I be running root (hd1,0) in grub instead?  The install docs seemed
> to lead me install on the MBR of the first disk.  The archived messages seem
> to back this up.
> 
> Any assistance appreciated.
> 
> Steve W.