-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:1:9 +0800, winglion wrote:
> >> now the thing get worse after my trying to use "grub-install" command to install > >> grub! > >> I type :grub-install -recheck /dev/hdb > >> it told me :/boot/grub/stag1 not read correctly! > > >Is your grub.conf correct? Does it specify the correct GRUB root? > >The full output of the installation attempt would be interesting. > > I edit my grub.conf as this (I had only this hard disk): > root (hd0,4) > kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 root=/dev/hdb5 > > sorry I don't know how to get the output--redirection ditn't work! > but I remember it is just one line telling me the stage1 can read correctly! Run "grub-install /dev/hdb &> output.txt", then post the file "output.txt". Please also include the output of "rpm -V grub" in a similar way. > >In your case, if you want to install GRUB into Master Boot Record > >(MBR), running "grub-install /dev/hdb" would be correct, provided > >that your grub.conf is correct. > > I had try" grub-install /dev/hdb "at first,it didn't work! > > >By changing the subject line of your mails _and_ using a mailer that > >doesn't maintain the headers needed for threaded display, it is > >difficult to keep track of your previous mails. > > Sorry, I am a newbe of linux and mailing list! The mails I received from > this mail list was packaged. and I had to cut the word you said to this mail. > I don't know how to get the mail client fill the subject automatically! > Should I chage my submit to the mail list so that I can recevie your mail one by one? You have subscribed to the digest version of the list, that means you receive several messages in one digest. When replying to digests, you need to adjust the subject line yourself, of course. Alternatively, when fetching your mail from within Linux, procmail could split digests automatically (but probably not suitable for a newbie). > >> Now that I had to use a floppy to boot my pc(Thanks god ,I had made one after > >> setup)! > >> the command I use to boot linux is > >> root(hd0,5) > >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 root=/dev/hdb5 > > >I don't believe this, because root(hd0,5) would specify your boot > >partition to be /dev/hd6, which is a swap partition according to > >your partition table. Correct for your setup would be root(hd0,4). > > As you had seen in my grub.conf, I know that this command line seems wrong! > But I do use it to boot my redhat! I don't see how booting from a swap partition could work. > I use what you told me to boot redhat > at first,grub told me that it can recognized the (hd0,4). This should be looked into. Upon booting, at GRUB command-prompt, what do you get when you enter "find /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14"? It should return (hd0,4). Same for "find /boot/grub/stage1". > If you are intertest in how my grub works! I can tell you one more strange things: > when the grub on MRB can still work manually,I boot it to redhat and try to > create > a boot floppy ! after I had format the floppy disk as ext2(I am sure I had did it > because > i mount it as ext2),and then make the /boot/grub dir and copy the stage1 stage2 into > it! > Then I start grub : > :root (fd0) > it recognize the floppy disk as fat filesystem! I can reproduce that. Might be a bug. > Is grub allways take floppy disk as fat format? > :setup (fd0) > it told me can't find the stage1 and stage2! I can reproduce this, too. Additionally, GRUB's "find" doesn't find any files on (fd0) either, but only those on my hdd partitions. > I try many time, the same thing happend! > At last I format the floppy disk as vfat and setup the grub successfully! > So I am using a boot floppy in fat format ! > All my knowledge of grub seem to be challenged at this two days! Installing GRUB onto floppy disk is a topic where I'm not up-to-date, and I don't feel like checking the manual right now. For bootdisks I use "mkbootdisk". - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE+dfof0iMVcrivHFQRAleDAJd0YysxSz/kLHsqDsWrXGasR7LDAJ9tujtB E+XIRZAowy6d7OWEmckMhg== =Mu1I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
