Re: trying to install, having grub problems.

On Saturday 26 October 2002 13.57, Per-Erik Westerberg wrote:

Why create a grub.conf? It has to be located on the /boot partition anywa=
y for=20
grub to work. When grub initialises only /boot is mounted, ie symlinks to=
=20
other files from /boot won't be useful...

Pontus

> Well, the line "root (hd1,)" should read "root (hd1,0)". I don't know i=
f
> this helps but try.
>
>   BR / Per-Erik
>
> On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 01:15, Steve White wrote:
> > I have run a ground installation of gentoo and the instructions were
> > great!
> >
> > :)
> >
> > However, one place where they seem to get a little confusing is the g=
rub
> > instructions.  I understand the drive numbering convention.  What I w=
ant
> > to do is to make a boot floppy.  I followed the instructions and did =
the
> > following commands:
> > mke2fs /dev/fd0
> > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> > mkdir -p /mnt/floppy/boot/grub
> > cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage1 /mnt/floppy/boot/grub
> > cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage2 /mnt/floppy/boot/grub
> >
> > grub
> >
> > >root (fd0)
> > >setup (fd0)
> > >quit
> >
> > upon reboot I get a grub prompt.  no splash screen, no menu.  I creat=
ed a
> > grub.conf and ln -s it to menu.lst.  my config is as such:
> >
> > default 0
> > timeout 30
> > splashimage=3D(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> >
> > title=3DGentoo Linux
> > root (hd1,)
> > kernel /boot/bzImage
> >
> > title=3DWindows 2000
> > rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> > chainloader +1
> >
> > What am I missing here?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve W.
>
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