I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted. I have /boot on /dev/hda1 and root on /dev/hda5
(At first, LILO was just hanging with 'LI 99 99 99' and GRub, when I installed it gave an Error 5 - 'partition table bad'. Eventually I got half a clue and added /boot (/dev/hda1) into /etc/fstab and started again...) Lilo when installed and booted just gives 'LI' and stops. Grub when installed and booted gives the following: GRUB Loading Stage 1.5 GRUB Loading, please wait... Error 2 (and that's as far as it gets) Error 2 means " Bad file or directory type This error is returned if a file requested is not a regular file, but something like a symbolic link, directory, or FIFO. " Does anyone have any ideas? [The details - I installed GRUB in accordance with /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian - 1. grub-install --root-directory=boot /dev/hda 2. Ran update-grub 3. Checked /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst and didn't need to change a thing - the significant lines (leaving out all the comments) are: default 0 timeout 5 color cyan/blue white/blue ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro # groot=(hd0,0) # alternative=true # lockalternative=false # altoptions=(recovery mode) single # howmany=all title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.2.20-idepci root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci root=/dev/hda1 ro savedefault title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.2.20-idepci (recovery mode) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci root=/dev/hda1 ro single savedefault ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST In /boot I have (amongst other files left over from lilo) -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224124 Jun 21 23:05 System.map-2.2.20-idepci -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3888 Jun 21 23:05 config-2.2.20-idepci -rw------- 1 root root 17408 Jun 21 23:50 map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 665509 Jun 21 23:05 vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci In /boot/boot/grub I have (put there by grub-install) *all* the stage1_5 flavours, including -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 Jun 21 23:06 device.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7904 Jun 22 00:10 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2392 Jun 22 00:10 menu.lst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jun 22 00:10 stage1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 95712 Jun 22 00:10 stage2 None of those look like symlinks to me. Have I got root set right in menu.lst, as /dev/hda1? Should it be /dev/hda5? Seems unlikely to be the cause since the boot menu or 'booting in 5 seconds' message never comes up and I wouldn't expect that root setting to take effect until after the menu.. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
