Hello,
I'm trying to use GRUB and I ran into a situation that I don't know
whether it's a problem or this is the way it's supposed to work.
I have a HD with the following partitioning:
/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda2 /
/dev/hda3 /develop
/dev/hda4 swap
When I try to use the menu facilities of GRUB by:
- Creating a /boot/grub/menu.lst as follows:
default 0
timeout 3
title Linux
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2
title Linux.old
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/hda2
- Running 'grub-install /dev/hda';
- Rebooting the system.
, I don't get the menu interface as of boot, but the GRUB prompt. In order
to get it, I have to manually run the following command:
configfile (hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst
After that, I do get the GRUB menu and everything works as expected.
My guess is that this is happening because the /boot directory is mounted
in a partition different from the root partition.
Questions:
- Are you _really_ expected to specify the config. file every time you
boot, or should the menu be invoked automatically?
- If the latter is the case, what can I do to fix the problem (removing
/dev/hda1 and making /boot local to /dev/hda2 is not an option :) ??
I hope such a simple thing is not enough to kill this GRUB
functionality ... Otherwise, GRUB is not that good after all, IMHO. ;)
I'm pretty sure this is just my ignorance, so ... could someone pls help??
Thanks in advance for your comments.
Later,
Ivan
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