Re: grub install
On 5 Feb 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> because lilo couldn't boot my new drive (an IBM DNES 18 GB SCSI disk),
> I began to try out grub, which can. However, I'm stuck halfway with
> the installation: According to the info pages I made a boot disk and
> installed grub on the hard disk with the command
>
> install (fd0)+1 (hd0) (hd0,1) /grub/stage2 p
>
> (I made a 6 GB Win partition, a 20 MB boot partition and the rest for
> the root part. + swap.) Now at boot time I get to a grub prompt and I
> can boot the system by hand with the commands
>
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel vmlinuz-2.2.14 root=/dev/sda3
> boot
>
> The menu.lst file which I placed in the /boot/grub directory is
> happily ignored.
>
> My question is how to slip booting by hand and get a boot menu
> according to my menu.lst -- maybe the configuration isn't quite
> correct. The menu.lst by now looks like this:
>
> # Boot automatically after 30 secs.
> timeout 30
> # By default, boot the first entry.
> default 0
> timeout 5
> # For booting Linux
> title GNU/Linux
> kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.2.14 root=/dev/sda3
> # For booting Windows
> title Windows
> root (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> # For installing GRUB into the hard disk
> title Install GRUB into the hard disk
> root (hd0,1)
> install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p
My entry is:-
# For installing GRUB into the hard disk
title Install GRUB into the hard disk
root (hd2,0)
install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p \
(hd2,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst
Where the last two lines above are really one line. Note the extra
parameter.
I find grub to be excellent, but I just wish that so many things in Linux
did not assume that I am using lilo.
> (copied from the example file and adapted to my setup). Any comments/
> hints?
>
> Thanks for your answers,
> joachim
>
>
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HTH
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