Re: GRUB problem
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:21:20PM +1200, cr wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:27, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:52:01AM +1200, cr wrote:
> > > I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted.
> >
> > erm, not quite sure whats wrong but what happens if you boot grub from
> > floppy then run root (hd0,0) then setup (hd0) from floppy?
>
> That actually worked previously with Red Hat (on a different hard drive).
>
> I just tried it on this setup and got:
>
> <grub> root (hd0,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>
> <grub> setup (hd0)
> Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no
> Checking if "/grub/Stage1" exists ... no
> Error 15: File not found
>
> /boot/boot/grub/Stage1 does exist, though. (And df confirms that I have got
> /dev/hda1 mounted as /boot)
>
> For some reason GRUB can't see the files.
> <grub> find "/boot/grub/stage1" (or any other file) brings up a 'File not
> found'
you could try copying the whole of /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ to your
/boot/boot Thats what i tend to do [i didnt realise that grub-install
copies stuff for you!]
grub can list files for you once you have set root. type / then <tab>
and see what files actually are on your boot partition.
--
hugh
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