Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:05:54 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, still one problem remains, that i can't boot to windows. Maybe > someone has an idea or i've to reinstall this windows. Okey - it's not > a problem - i don't work with it. What does your Windows 98 entry currently say

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:39:00 -0500 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The canonical location is /boot/grub/menu.lst, *relative to the > default root partition*; if your /boot is a separate partition, try > using /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst. Not. The canonical location is relative to *grub's*

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread David Z Maze
Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to install grub to boot my linux or windows partition. > Unfortunatly it won't work. > Now, grub boots the grub shell, but nothing more. I've to tell him where > the configfile is > > configfile /grub/menu.lst > > My menu appears and i c

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread Roman Joost
Andreas helped me out. The solution was a duplicate /boot directory in the /boot directory - like: /boot/boot/grub/ without a menu.lst. I deleted this duplicate directory and installed the "original" grub. After a reboot, i've my boot menu back :) So, still one problem remains, that i can't boot t

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread Roman Joost
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 08:40:30PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > AT the "grub" prompt, try doing this: > > grub> root (hd0,4) > grub> setup (hd0) > grub> quit I did it - all seems fine: grub> root (hd0,4) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boo

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:40:30 +0800 Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before reinstalling, first try adding "makeactive" to the Windows 98 > setting, like this: > > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 "makeactive" isn't really needed, although the grub docs say to us

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread Robert Storey
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:14:08 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to install grub to boot my linux or windows partition. > Unfortunatly it won't work. > Now, grub boots the grub shell, but nothing more. I've to tell him where > the configfile is > > configfile /grub/me

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread Roman Joost
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:17:02PM +0200, Andreas Happe wrote: > standard location for the configuration file is /boot/grub/menu.lst. I > think you've got to add an extra parameter to grub-install / setup if > you change that path. > > andreas Hm.. but my boot device is hda5 - its set in the grub-

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread Andreas Happe
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roman Joost wrote: > Now, grub boots the grub shell, but nothing more. I've to tell him where > the configfile is > > configfile /grub/menu.lst standard location for the configuration file is /boot/grub/menu.lst. I think you've got to add an extra parameter

bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread Roman Joost
I tried to install grub to boot my linux or windows partition. Unfortunatly it won't work. Now, grub boots the grub shell, but nothing more. I've to tell him where the configfile is configfile /grub/menu.lst My menu appears and i can boot Linux. What i'm doing wrong, that grub wont load