Re: GRUB cannot find stage2[SOLVED]
As was proclaimed by Ethan Benson:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:09:03PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
> >
> > install (fd0)+1 (hd0) (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2 p
> >
> > My boot partition lies on partition /dev/hda5. The output from df is
> > as follows
> >
> > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/hda6 54410 21921 29680 42% /
> > /dev/hda5 23268 786 21281 4% /boot
>
> thats the problem. /boot partitions suck for this reason.
>
> > /dev/hda7 54410 11482 40119 22% /var
> > /dev/hda8 38855 16 36833 0% /tmp
> > /dev/hda9 19021175 333698 17695867 2% /usr
> >
> > The only message I get is file not found. The output from find /boot
> > -name stage2 is /boot/grub/stage2. Any ideas?
>
> try this:
>
> root (hd0,4)
> setup --prefix=/grub (hd0)
>
> grub doesn't know about mountpoints, so since grub lives in /boot/grub
> and /boot is its own partition that becomes /grub
>
> its easier to just make your / partition small and do away with the
> /boot partition entirely.
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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I used this command to get everything straightened out...
install (fd0)+1 d (hd0) (hd0,4)/grub/stage2 p (hd0,4)/grub/menu.lst
I wrote up a short summary of the experienced explaining some of the
gotchas a person might run into when installing and configuring GRUB. Should
I post it to the list or is there a website out there that takes these kinds
of submissions?
Thanks for the help,
Ian
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