Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)
hiya matt
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote:
> I'm trying desperately to install grub on an auxiliary hard drive
> currently living on the 3rd IDE bus (/dev/hde).
do you know if your motherboard can boot from /dev/hde ??
- not all bios/mb supports booting from off-board controllers
- stick a working disk/cd-drive in /dev/hde and see if you can
boot it
it'd be pointless to install the grub mbr on /dev/hde if it cannot boot
than come back to grub issues
mv /boot/grub/device.map /boot/grub/device.map.old
assuming you have a working disk /dev/hda ( aka hd0 )
assuming you have a working disk /dev/hdc ( aka hd1 )
assuming you have a working disk /dev/hde ( aka hd2 )
> grub> root (hd0,0)
that is wrong
> grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/boot/grub (hd2)
you do NOT need to type all that if you cannot guarantee you know
what yu're telling it
> Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2)"... failed (this is not
> fatal)
guess not
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keep it simple ...
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grub> root (hd2,0)
grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-2 root=/dev/hde1
grub> setup (hd2)
grub> exit
- use the kernel you have
if you had no errors, you can now boot from /dev/hde into /dev/hde1
- download the latest legacy grub from CVS if you have any problems
http://Linux-boot.net/Loaders/Grub//Examples/GRUB-Install-From-CVS.sh.txt
c ya
alvin
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