Re: Grub problem

2025-04-23 Thread Michael Paoli
So, is this md raid1, or true hardware RAID-1? If it's md raid1: MBR system - boot block should be installed to both drives, remainder is installed to the /boot filesystem (or / if there's no /boot filesystem) GPT - I'm not 100% sure (haven't looked into the details), but in that case, I think G

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-26 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 06/25/2022 09:37 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have four hard drives ion my Bullseye platform; Three SSD's and one HDD. My current copy of Bullseye is on /dev/sdd1. I have installed a pristine copy of Bullsye on /dev/sda. The installer found the copy of Bullseye on /dev/ssd1 and I instal

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread Anssi Saari
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > Assistanc will be mucn appeciated. You didn't really specify what you want assistance with but I guess you want to boot the new Bullseye too? I don't really see the point of having two copies of the same OS installed though. Assuming a BIOS system and os-prober pac

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Sat 25 Jun 2022 at 09:37:32 (-0400), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > I have four hard drives ion my Bullseye platform; Three SSD's and one > HDD. My current copy of Bullseye is on /dev/sdd1. I have installed a > pristine copy of Bullsye on /dev/sda. > > The installer found the copy of Bullseye on

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread piorunz
On 25/06/2022 14:37, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: The installer found the copy of Bullseye on /dev/ssd1 and I installed grub on /dev/sda1. You supposed to install GRUB in a disk, not in a partition. So, /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1. You select /dev/sda during installation. At the end of the installati

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread DdB
before any action ... comes diagnosis: please fill in missing pieces: - SDD's, HDD are formatted GPT? or is the dinosaur using MBR? - is your computer configured to boot UEFI-style? Or are you still using BIOS-style/compatibility-mode? - can you show (and comment) the output from lsblk and (sudo) b

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-10-03 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 29 Sep 2012 at 18:56:43 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: >> > >> > At the GRUB prompt press the 'e' key. Please post what you see. There >> > will probably be a long UUID. To save some typing p

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-10-01 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 29 Sep 2012 at 18:56:43 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: >> > >> > At the GRUB prompt press the 'e' key. Please post what you see. There >> > will probably be a long UUID. To save some typing p

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-09-29 Thread Brian
On Sat 29 Sep 2012 at 18:56:43 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > At the GRUB prompt press the 'e' key. Please post what you see. There > > will probably be a long UUID. To save some typing put 123 for it. > > Thanks. Might I was not clean. Thi

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-09-29 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Sep 2012 at 22:24:16 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> I would like to move from old 320GB HDD to a new 1TB HDD. I have the >> following partition structure: >> >> sda1 - XP >> sda2 - Debian 7 x86_64 (boot partition) >> sda3 - swap >> >>

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-09-29 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Sep 2012 at 22:24:16 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > I would like to move from old 320GB HDD to a new 1TB HDD. I have the > following partition structure: > > sda1 - XP > sda2 - Debian 7 x86_64 (boot partition) > sda3 - swap > > The GRUB is on the sda2 partition not in the MBR. That's

Re: Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 08 November 2008 16:03, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Op Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:22:15 +0200 Bela Balazs wrote: > > The two menu.lst entries: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 > > root(hd0,1) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 > > root=UUID=5dd1

Re: Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 11:03:48PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Op Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:22:15 +0200 Bela Balazs wrote: > > The two menu.lst entries: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 > > root(hd0,1) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 > > root=UU

Re: Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 10:22:15PM +0200, Bela Balazs wrote: > Hello all. > I installed Debian, but the installer failed to install grub. I have that problem whenever I install Etch: the installer says its installing Etch but it doesn't. I end up rebooting the installer in rescue mode and doing

Re: Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:22:15 +0200 Bela Balazs wrote: > The two menu.lst entries: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 > root=UUID=5dd1a349-c311-40ca-82f4-a7a39ca134a3 ro > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2

Re: Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 08 November 2008 21:22:15 Bela Balazs wrote: > Hello all. > I installed Debian, but the installer failed to install grub. Did it fail or din"t propose? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grub problem with primary partition

2008-07-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,19.Jul.08, 11:50:10, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,19.Jul.08, 10:36:44, Peibol wrote: > > [...] > > > As you can see hda3 is the last primary partition and it is beyond the > > last logical partition. > > Debian + grub is on hda6 and it boots ok. But I have other Linux > > distributio

Re: grub problem with primary partition

2008-07-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,19.Jul.08, 10:36:44, Peibol wrote: [...] > As you can see hda3 is the last primary partition and it is beyond the > last logical partition. > Debian + grub is on hda6 and it boots ok. But I have other Linux > distribution (Suse) installed on hda3 and when I tried to boot it, it > fai

Re: GRUB problem?

2006-12-31 Thread Eeltje
Keith Willis schreef: > Hi, > > Here's a weird one... I've noticed that as soon as the GRUB > boot-loader runs, I lose my DVD-RW drive. It functions normally if I > jump into the BIOS setup at boot time, then ceases to respond the > moment GRUB runs, so that even if I boot into WinXP, the drive

Re: grub problem

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:27:34PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I have a machine with Windows XP and Debian (sarge) installed. The boot > manager is GRUB. The machine was working fine, but suddently GRUB > doesn't boot the system any more. At boot time I get the following: > > >

Re: grub problem

2006-06-07 Thread Mirco Piccin
}}Hello,Hi.}} But how can I reinstall GRUB from the Debian CD without}}passing through the partitioner?Probably booting with a live-cd (Knoppix) and chroot-ing!!Hope it help you!Bye

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:11:18PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: I know I created a GRUB floppy some time back. I'd have to find some old notes to remember the exact steps. Mike This way from /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian.gz cat /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:11:18PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > I know I created a GRUB floppy some time back. I'd have to find > some old notes to remember the exact steps. > > Mike This way from /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian.gz cat /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 > /dev/fd0 works f

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:34:43AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: described. and since, i've adopted a habit of keeping a GRUB boot disk around. (it's fairly trivial to create a bootable floppy. only slightly tougher to create a bootable CD.) i then use grub shell, to do

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: :-) > > you keep going to filesytem > > No, you do. i see we're assumign too many stuff .. i never once said aything but servo info being the same as fs info .. etc..etc > > am not talking about the head alignment and gaps or anything > > B

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Yes, I'm talking about servo data, which cannot be seen by dd or any other normal (or even driver level) accesses. i think we;re talking about the different kidns of servo data ... created/maintained at different lev

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:34:43AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > >described. and since, i've adopted a habit of keeping a GRUB boot disk > >around. (it's fairly trivial to create a bootable floppy. only slightly > >tougher to create a bootable CD.) i then use grub shell, to do a 'setup' > >of >

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > You are obviously smart > and intelligent, but you weren't THERE. I was. i been playing with them removable 14" disk platters and stripping um and reassemble um and stick it back into the dg/dec/si washing machines > > the disk controller on th

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
anoop aryal wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:05 pm, Jeremy Merritt wrote: I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya mike Hi yourself. Glad to meet you. I hope this message doesn't seem pugnacious. It isn't intended to be. But your response seems to me to contain some factual and comprehensional errors. Since this is a technical forum, I don't feel comfortable allowing what I percieve

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread anoop aryal
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:05 pm, Jeremy Merritt wrote: > I have been having a problem getting my GRUB > bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it > keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on > this list and got some good input. But have run into a > dead end again. Can so

bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > the "tracking info" is dependant on the filesystem > > It is not. i beg to differ ... different fs has different disk structure to tune itself for various things to make it better or worst than other fs > It is used by the uControll

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Mike McCarty wrote: [...] So, here is a brief tutorial on disc partitioning and how boot proceeds. [...] Thanks for the explanation, it was very useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Jeremy Merritt wrote: Wow, what a great explanation. I have read through it, but am going to do another to make sure it's all taken in. Thanks. Thank you. I realize that it is very condensed and long. But even so, it glosses over quite a bit of detail (e.g. LBA and the fact that one can actuall

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya mike :-) i'm even more sleepy now :-) HEY! I SAID it was long! :-) but, some comments On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: I think you need a little more information about how boot is accomplished on IBM PC style computers. if a user can't get the machine

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike :-) i'm even more sleepy now :-) but, some comments On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > I think you need a little more information about how > boot is accomplished on IBM PC style computers. if a user can't get the machine to boot .. this much detail is probably more than th

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
Wow, what a great explanation. I have read through it, but am going to do another to make sure it's all taken in. Thanks. --- Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > I have been having a problem getting my GRUB > > bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, > i

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: [some stuff about formatting discs and boot] I forgot one more layer of format: OS install. A volume may have a file system without an OS on it. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have fo

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Jeremy Merritt wrote: I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end again. Can someone analyze these steps and tell me what I'm

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Art Edwards
If you can boot from cdrom, use cfdisk to toggle the boot properties of the partitions (as root, of course). Art Edwards Jeremy Merritt wrote: If having multiple partitions is the problem or part of the problem, how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and make the others not bootable? Is that the

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote: > If having multiple partitions is the problem or part > of the problem, NOT the problem > how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and > make the others not bootable? take it out with the bios so that it doesn't check it or # delete the M

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
If having multiple partitions is the problem or part of the problem, how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and make the others not bootable? Is that the only thing that needs to be done in addition to the other steps? --- Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > >I have been

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Art Edwards
Jeremy Merritt wrote: I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end again. Can someone analyze these steps and tell me what I'm

Re: Grub problem

2005-07-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Eugen Wintersberger wrote: > (I'm not sure if this was the exact error message). If I do the > same installation procedure but install LILO the machine reboots as > expected (means that the bootloader works). if lilo works ( boots properly ), than there is nothing wrong wi

Re: Grub problem?

2004-11-10 Thread Kam-Ming Siu
Hi Christian, I have not experience for net-inst disk. But I think you can install GRUB to SCSI disk's MBR after installation. The config. file of GRUB is /boot/grub/menu.lst. This file tells GRUB where is the files for bootup your machine and the related options. After confirm the contain of this

Re: Grub problem?

2004-11-10 Thread Renqilong
sure.That depends on your own choice On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:38:16 -0500 Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > (Debian newbie) > > I just burned a Debian "testing" net-inst disk. I think that makes it Sarge. > > I tried installing Debian on my home server, which has two IDE

Re: grub problem

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 16:27, Rodney Richison wrote: > I attempted a repair floppy last night. It didn't work out real well. > Ahhh, for a command like sys a::) Novel idea... > > Anyway here's what I did for future google searches. Maybe it'll help > someone someday. > > How to Repair Grub bo

Re: grub problem

2004-07-07 Thread Rodney Richison
I attempted a repair floppy last night. It didn't work out real well. Ahhh, for a command like sys a::) Novel idea... Anyway here's what I did for future google searches. Maybe it'll help someone someday. How to Repair Grub boot loader after debian ghost restore I booted with mepis (Any live-c

Re: grub problem

2004-07-07 Thread Patrick Ouellette
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to implement a fallback full backup method for this great proxy-filter for the library. I used ghost to back it up, just as I used to do with redhat. Of course, ghost screws up grub. With Redhat, I'd stick the install cd in and at boot type in Linux Rescue ch

Re: GRUB problem

2003-07-04 Thread cr
On Thursday 03 July 2003 05:51, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030629 19:28]: > > Yes, I did that. It produced a floppy which, when booted off, just says > > 'GRUB' and hangs. > > Does it hang, or is that a grub prompt you're seeing? It won't go to a > menu. You'll have to type

Re: GRUB problem

2003-07-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030629 19:28]: > Yes, I did that. It produced a floppy which, when booted off, just says > 'GRUB' and hangs. Does it hang, or is that a grub prompt you're seeing? It won't go to a menu. You'll have to type commands manually. From the looks of this thread, it seems li

Re: GRUB problem

2003-07-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kevin McKinley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030701 13:33]: > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:54:51 +1200 > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Errrm, *I* didn't produce that line > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci root=/dev/hda1 ro > > - grub-install did. > > > > In fact, if I read GRUB terminology aright,

Re: GRUB problem

2003-07-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:54:51 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Errrm, *I* didn't produce that line > kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci root=/dev/hda1 ro > - grub-install did. > > In fact, if I read GRUB terminology aright, it's looking for > (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci. > Or, as Linux se

Re: GRUB problem

2003-07-01 Thread cr
On Monday 30 June 2003 14:40, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:44:46 +1200 > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, in my system, /vmlinuz is a symlink thus: > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 26 Jun 12 08:25 vmlinuz -> > > boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci > > > > and /boot/vml

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-30 Thread cr
On Saturday 28 June 2003 23:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > I have /boot on /dev/hda1 and root on /dev/hda5 > > > > Grub when installed and booted gives the following: > > > > GRUB Loading Stage 1.5 > > GRUB Loading, please wait... > > Error 2(and that's a

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-30 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:44:46 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, in my system, /vmlinuz is a symlink thus: > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 26 Jun 12 08:25 vmlinuz -> > boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci > > and /boot/vmlinuz is: > -rw-r--r--1 root root 665509 Jun 21 23:0

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-29 Thread cr
On Friday 27 June 2003 04:28, Anita Lewis wrote: > cr, it looks like /boot is available from both /etc/fstab and from your df > listing. I am assuming that you ran 'update-grub' first to produce > menu.lst, but even if you hadn't done that, by now you have rerun > grub-install enough. > > I notic

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-29 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > I have /boot on /dev/hda1 and root on /dev/hda5 > 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 > T

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-29 Thread cr
On Friday 27 June 2003 05:42, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030625 01:44]: > > I think grub-install actually looks for the files in > > /usr/lib/grub/i386pc/ and copies them to /boot/grub in root dir on > > /dev/hdaOR, if you specify (as I do) > > grub-install --root-directo

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-29 Thread cr
On Friday 27 June 2003 05:47, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > I just tried it on this setup and got: > > > > root (hd0,0) > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > > > setup (hd0) > > Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > > Checking if "/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > > Error 15:

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-28 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:28:11 -0400 (EDT) Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other thing to check is in your menu.lst > It says: > kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci root=/dev/hda1 ro > > Is that where that kernel is or is it /boot/vmlinuz-2... ? Yes, that's right. I'm embarrassed I mi

Re: fs_passno (was Re: GRUB problem)

2003-06-28 Thread cr
On Friday 27 June 2003 08:44, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030626 12:52]: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > > # > > # > > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2errors=remount-ro 0 0 > > /dev/hda5 / ext2

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030625 01:44]: > I think grub-install actually looks for the files in /usr/lib/grub/i386pc/ > and copies them to /boot/grub in root dir on /dev/hdaOR, if you specify > (as I do) > grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda then it copies them to the > /boot

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-27 Thread Anita Lewis
cr said: >> I've concluded that there must be something fairly basic wrong with my bios settings or maybe the MBR (though I did run bios autodetect before I started all this and made sure the alternatives I selected gave the same drive/head/sector numbers as the labels on the hard drives did). I'

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030624 01:22]: > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:27, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:52:01AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted. > > > > erm, not quite sure whats wrong but what happens if you boot grub from > >

fs_passno (was Re: GRUB problem)

2003-06-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030626 12:52]: > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2errors=remount-ro 0 0 > /dev/hda5 / ext2errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/hda6 none

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-26 Thread cr
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 22:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > 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 > > i

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > 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

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread cr
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 03:26, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200 > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > root (hd0,0) > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > > > setup (hd0) > > Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > > Checking if "/grub/Stage1"

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread cr
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 09:02, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:05:24 -0400 > > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Your files are in /boot/boot/grub, and they should be in /boot/grub. > > > > > > To solve your problem, do "cp -a /boot/boot/grub /boot". > > > > That's not

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread cr
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 00:08, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Tue, June 24 at 7:21 PM EDT > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just tried it on this setup and got: > > > > root (hd0,0) > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > > > setup (hd0) > > Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exi

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread cr
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:05, David Z Maze wrote: > Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200 > > > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> setup (hd0) > >> Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > >> Checking if "/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > >> Err

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread cr
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 21:27, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > > For some reason GRUB can't see the files. > > find "/boot/grub/stage1" (or any other file) brings up a 'File > > not found' > > you could try copying the whole of /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ to your > /boot/boot Thats what i tend to do [i

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:05:24 -0400 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your files are in /boot/boot/grub, and they should be in /boot/grub. > > > > To solve your problem, do "cp -a /boot/boot/grub /boot". > > That's not going to help if /boot is a separate partition. You need > to separa

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread David Z Maze
Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200 > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> setup (hd0) >> Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no >> Checking if "/grub/Stage1" exists ... no >> Error 15: File not found >> >> /boot/boot/grub/Stage1 does exist, thou

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > Checking if "/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > Error 15: File not found > > /boot/boot/grub/Stage1 do

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, June 24 at 7:21 PM EDT cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried it on this setup and got: > > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > Checking if "/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > Error 15: File

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:21:20PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:27, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:52:01AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted. > > > > erm, not quite sure whats wrong but what happens if you boot gr

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread cr
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:56, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (24/06/03 00:52), cr wrote: > > 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

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread cr
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 08:40, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:52:01 +1200 > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST > > # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro > > # groot=(hd0,0) > > # alternative=true > > # lockalternative=false > > # altoptions=(recovery mode) singl

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread cr
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:27, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:52:01AM +1200, cr wrote: > > I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted. > > erm, not quite sure whats wrong but what happens if you boot grub from > floppy then run root (hd0,0) then setup (hd0) from f

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/06/03 01:20), Kevin McKinley wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:04:47 +0100 > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I did this, it took the values and reset them to to the default > > values. So having gone around in circles more than once, I tried just > > booting without up

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:04:47 +0100 Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I did this, it took the values and reset them to to the default > values. So having gone around in circles more than once, I tried just > booting without update grub and it worked fine. Is there a flag in > menu.l

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/06/03 16:36), Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:56:37 +0100 > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > to guide me. The only variation I adopted was to not rerun update grub > > after editing the menu.lst. It seemed to put all the settings back to > > their original val

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:52:01 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ### 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-idep

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:56:37 +0100 Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to guide me. The only variation I adopted was to not rerun update grub > after editing the menu.lst. It seemed to put all the settings back to > their original values. Perhaps something was wrong with the way you edit

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/06/03 00:52), cr wrote: > 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

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:52:01AM +1200, cr wrote: > I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted. erm, not quite sure whats wrong but what happens if you boot grub from floppy then run root (hd0,0) then setup (hd0) from floppy? -- hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: grub problem SOLVED

2002-01-19 Thread andrej hocevar
The document's url is as follows: linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:12:45AM -0500, David Teague wrote: > Andrej > > Congratulation on solving your grub problem. > > You mention a document that describes your situation. > Please name it, and tell where i

Re: grub problem SOLVED

2002-01-19 Thread David Teague
Andrej Congratulation on solving your grub problem. You mention a document that describes your situation. Please name it, and tell where it can be found. David On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, andrej hocevar wrote: > Hello! > I updated grub to 0.9 and it totally amazes me! So many new commands, > great!

SOLVED Re: grub problem: cannot read from drive

2000-08-12 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:27:48PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > I have grub on mbr of /dev/hda. I have a new harddrive at /dev/hdc > with Debian. I have an older, 200meg hard drive at /dev/hdb. ^ > > I am trying to install Debian onto /dev/hdb1. I have done so, but

Re: grub problem: cannot read from drive

2000-08-12 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:27:48PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > I have grub on mbr of /dev/hda. I have a new harddrive at /dev/hdc > with Debian. I have an older, 200meg hard drive at /dev/hdb. > > I am trying to install Debian onto /dev/hdb1. I have done so, but I > cannot get grub to boot it.

Re: grub problem: cannot read from drive

2000-08-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
I'm no grub expert (only started using it recently), but in the menu file I have something like: title Linux Foo root (hd0,2) kernel --type=biglinux /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 I don't know if specifying the "root" filesystem and the "--type=biglinux" (for bzImage) will help. I recall having problems