On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:21:20PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:27, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:52:01AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted. > > > > erm, not quite sure whats wrong but what happens if you boot grub from > > floppy then run root (hd0,0) then setup (hd0) from floppy? > > That actually worked previously with Red Hat (on a different hard drive). > > I just tried it on this setup and got: > > <grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > <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) > > For some reason GRUB can't see the files. > <grub> find "/boot/grub/stage1" (or any other file) brings up a 'File not > found' you could try copying the whole of /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ to your /boot/boot Thats what i tend to do [i didnt realise that grub-install copies stuff for you!]
grub can list files for you once you have set root. type / then <tab> and see what files actually are on your boot partition. -- hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
