On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:39:56AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Well, to be absolutely fair, GRUB didn't look that good about a year (and a > > half?) ago, before Gordon Matzigkeit and OKUJI Yoshinori started to work on it. > > For example, there was no system command to install it, you had to install it > > manually on a boot disk. Now there is the stand alone grub binary, which can > > be used. Also, Yoshinori fixed a zillion of bugs and added new features. > While I also think that grub is a fine thing I recommend not to use > /boot as a separate partition (as it is suggested in some documents). > I did so (following the suggestions) and was falling into trouble > with some strange "File not found" messages (See Bug #71661). While > I was able to solve the problem using the really strange path > /boot/boot/grub if you have a separate partition for the /boot directory, you have a directory /grub in the root of *thet* partition. so you have to say grub the new locations of stage2 and menu.lst. root (hd1,5) install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst boot i assume that the partition you mount at /boot is (hd1,5). then everything grub wants is in /grub of taht partition, which is /boot/grub once it is mounted in your regular system. does this solve your problem or i'm missing something? -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ get my public gpg key at http://www.freeweb.org/free/cavok/gpgkey.asc -----[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50
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