Dear all,
because lilo couldn't boot my new drive (an IBM DNES 18 GB SCSI disk),
I began to try out grub, which can. However, I'm stuck halfway with
the installation: According to the info pages I made a boot disk and
installed grub on the hard disk with the command
install (fd0)+1 (hd0) (hd0,1) /grub/stage2 p
(I made a 6 GB Win partition, a 20 MB boot partition and the rest for
the root part. + swap.) Now at boot time I get to a grub prompt and I
can boot the system by hand with the commands
root (hd0,1)
kernel vmlinuz-2.2.14 root=/dev/sda3
boot
The menu.lst file which I placed in the /boot/grub directory is
happily ignored.
My question is how to slip booting by hand and get a boot menu
according to my menu.lst -- maybe the configuration isn't quite
correct. The menu.lst by now looks like this:
# Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout 30
# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0
timeout 5
# For booting Linux
title GNU/Linux
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.2.14 root=/dev/sda3
# For booting Windows
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# For installing GRUB into the hard disk
title Install GRUB into the hard disk
root (hd0,1)
install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p
(copied from the example file and adapted to my setup). Any comments/
hints?
Thanks for your answers,
joachim
