Re: Howto customize GRUB during Debian installation

[Hamid <debian_lists@hotmail.com>]

> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to install Debian next to XP. After the first installation,
> > system froze at loading grub
> > with a "Error loading grub" message.
> > I used DOS "fdisk /mbr" to at least get back to XP and I realized that
> > Debian had completely changed the structure of partition table of the 
> > Hard
> > disk, I had 3 primary partitions and specifically asked Debian to add a
> > logical one using the unallocated space of 3rd primary partition but
> > Debian had added the fourth primary partition.
> >
> > Now my questions are:
> > 1-How to avoid freezing again ?
>
> When you installed grub how did you do it.  It probably is looking for a
> stage1.5 file in the partition in which grub was installed to boot from.

I didn't install it, I think the installer takes care of it

> I think there is a program called install-grub that does the grunt work 
> of
> installing it correctly (I originally did it by hand from the gentoo
> installation instructions - see http://www.gentoo.org)
>
> In my setup I have a hard disk with (the output from fdisk as)
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1               1          65       32728+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda2   *          66       13164     6601896    b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda3           13165       21504     4203360   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4           21505       79656    29308419   8e  Linux LVM
>
>
> the first partition is where /boot is located and is a small partion at 
> the
> beginning of the disk - Windows is next and then the third is my root of
> linux (swap is on another drive, and 	I use LVM to manage most of the 
> rest of
> my disk space)

I have a very similar partition to yours, as in I have the /boot the first 
small one and then two Windows and two Linux partitions

> if necessary use package "parted" to move partions about if you want, 
> although
> you probably need to do that from a stand alone floppy and only install 
> grub
> in the mbr afterwards.
>
> You don't need to do it that way - your partition layout is what you 
> want it
> to be
>
> > 2-How to customize Grub during installation so Windows can be added to 
> > the
> > list of available OSs ?
>
>
> You add the lines
>
> title			Windows XP
> rootnoverify	(hd0,x)
> chainloader	+1
>
> to the end of /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
>
> where x is the partiion (starting at 0) that XP is located. (I also make 
> this
> the only partion with the boot flag set

So your (hd0,0), which I guess is /boot, does not have the boot flag, 
right ?

Thanks for the help
Hamid



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