On 5 Feb 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > 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
My entry is:- # For installing GRUB into the hard disk title Install GRUB into the hard disk root (hd2,0) install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p \ (hd2,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst Where the last two lines above are really one line. Note the extra parameter. I find grub to be excellent, but I just wish that so many things in Linux did not assume that I am using lilo. > (copied from the example file and adapted to my setup). Any comments/ > hints? > > Thanks for your answers, > joachim > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > HTH =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
