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Re: [OT] Grub



On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:17:00PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Joey" == Joey Kool <manowar@graffiti.net> writes:
> 
>     Joey> So using cfdisk, I made /dev/hda not bootable and /dev/hdb1
>     Joey> bootable.  Put stage1 and stage2 and menu.lst and other
>     Joey> files in /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/* to /boot/grub/ I booted
>     Joey> with the grub bootdisk and
>     grub> root (hd1,0) install /grub/stage1 (hd1) /grub/stage2 p
> 
> Is that a mistake? Don't you want /boot/grub/*, not /grub/*?

he has /boot as its own partition, so /boot/grub becomes /grub as far
as grub is concerned.  grub does not know about mountpoints.  

i would suggest using setup instead of install manually.  

root (hd1,0)
setup --prefix=/grub (hd1)
quit

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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