Re: Grub2 installed with wrong boot commands
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:12:13PM +0800, Jason Heeris wrote:
> Mostly it goes okay, but the grub2 installation is a real pain. The
> installer detects the USB install media (FAT16) as the first hard
> drive (/dev/sda) and the target (the flash disk) as the second
> (/dev/sdb). I tell it *not* to install to the MBR of the first hard
> drive, but to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb. It then configures grub2
> with the following lines for booting:
>
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='(hd1,msdos1)'
> [ and then some kernel lines]
>
> These are completely wrong - upon booting up without the USB stick in,
> I get dropped to a busybox prompt (because there is no hd1). I need to
> restart and edit the grub2 entries to be:
>
> insmod ext2
> set root='(hd0,0)'
Something else is wrong then, because partition numbers start from 1 in
GRUB 2 - 0-based partition numbers no longer work. Is it possible that
there's a very old version of GRUB hanging around in a boot sector
somewhere?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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