Re: GRUB problem
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:05, David Z Maze wrote:
> Kevin McKinley <ronin2@bellatlantic.net> writes:
> > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200
> >
> > cr <cr@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> >> <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)
> >
> > Your files are in /boot/boot/grub, and they should be in /boot/grub.
> >
> > To solve your problem, do "cp -a /boot/boot/grub /boot".
>
> That's not going to help if /boot is a separate partition. You need
> to separately tell GRUB where to find the stage1.5 and stage2 files
> and where to install the boot sector; the Info manual suggests that
> you want
>
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
>
> In this situation, I believe /boot/boot/grub is the correct directory.
Since root (hd0,0) mounts into [what linux calls "/boot"], then if it looks
for (hd0,0)/boot/grub, it will be looking in /boot/boot/grub in Linux
terms. Assuming always that /dev/hda1 is mounted as /boot in Linux, which
it is in my system. In other words /boot/boot/grub is correct, I think.
cr
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