Heinz Sporn wrote: >Hi! > >Whenever someone has Grub problems it'd be a good idea to not only post >grub.conf but more importantly infos about the disk layouts (and fstab >to round it up). > > > OK, well I have a dual boot with Windows happening here as you probably can tell. Its all on the one hard drive.
Partition 1 (grub 0)(hda1) = Windows XP (NTFS) Partition 2 (grub 1)(hda2) = Gentoo /boot (reiserfs) Partition 3 (grub 2)(hda3) = Linux Swap Partition 4 (grub 3)(hda4) = Gentoo / (Including /home) (reiserfs) >In your case there seems to be a couple of things to verify. > >I assume that Grub didn't come up with its initial dialog? > Yup, it showed nothing. >That usually >means that it couldn't find /boot/grub/grub.conf using it's stage >drivers in /boot/grub. > > Alright, so would I just 'install' it again? This is not an initial install of grub, how could it lose its configuration file? >With root (hd0,1) you force Grub to load an OS from the second partition >of your first physical disk. Does /dev/hda4 reflect this situation? > >So in short: you have to tell Grub where to find /boot/grub/grub.conf > > Well, as long as you can tell me how Im OK. >But for detailed forensics I'd need more intel. > >Regards > >spox > > Thanks very much!! Ian >Am Samstag, den 06.08.2005, 01:32 -0400 schrieb Ian K: > > >>Hi there, >>I am getting an "Error 15" >>when grub loads. I booted in with a Gentoo Live CD >>and got the file, and am including it. I think the >>error 15 code is a syntax error, right? Here is >>the file. Let me know if you see a problem. >>Ian >>PS> Please note I like to make things look good, >>explaining the ..::..'s >> >>---------grub.conf--------- >>default 2 >>timeout 10 >>splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> >> >> >>title=.....::::: GentooLinux2.6.11-gentoo-r11 >>:::::..... >>root (hd0,1) >>kernel /linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 root=/dev/hda4 >> >> >> >>title=.....:::::Gentoo >>Linux2.6.11-gen-r11-IR2:::::..... >>root (hd0,1) >>kernel /linux-2.6.11-r11-IR2 root=/dev/hda4 >> >> >>title=.....:::::Gentoo >>Linux2.6.11-gen-r11-IR3:::::..... >>root (hd0,1) >>kernel /linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11-IR3 root=/dev/hda4 >> >> >>title=.....:::::Gentoo Linux >>2.6.13-rc1-mm1-R2:::::..... >>root (hd0,1) >>kernel /K2.6.13-rc1-mm1-R2 root=/dev/hda4 >> >> >> >> >>title=.....::::: Windows XP >>:::::..... >>rootnoverify (hd0,0) >>makeactive >>chainloader +1 >> >> >>__________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>http://mail.yahoo.com >> >>
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