On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 05:45:32PM -0500, abhay@cox.net wrote: > I also tried GRUB with GRUB installed on /dev/hda which is my first hard > disk. Upon rebooting the words GRUB were printed at the top left corner of > the screen and the machine simply hung after that. To install grub I would do the following: Make sure your menu.lst file contains entries for linux and windows. In my case this is: title Debian bf2.4 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi title Debian 2.6.0 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0 root=/dev/hda1 title Low-level Format root (hd0,3) chainloader +1 but in your case it would be something like: title Debian root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/name-of-kernel root=/dev/hdb1 title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Then to install grub you would boot into Debian and run grub. Then enter the following commands: root (hd1,0) This indicates that grub files are on /dev/hdb1 setup (hd0) This indicates that grub should install on /dev/hda Grub needs to know where its files are stored. When your computer boots the part of grub in the MBR of /dev/hda is loaded and then it needs to load the rest of grub. If it doesn't know where that is it will just sit there. The files grub needs are in the /boot/grub/ directory of your Debian partition. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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