--- Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> backyard wrote: > > I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell > > Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting > this > > server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't > the > > biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice > > inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... > > > > It will boot from a floppy, but installing it to > the > > hard drive seems to corrupt the root filesystem. > It > > claims to install fine and during boot will load > > grub_stage1.5 from the disk, but instead of > loading > > stage2 it begins to boot the system, but the > console > > font has become completely corrupted, and I'm not > > certain if anything else has. It will boot, and > > appears to function but the font is messed up. > > > > Has anyone else had issues with the particular > Dell > > and GRUB? I've never had problems with GRUB before > > this machine. I'm at a loss, any help would be > > appreciated. It would be nice to get GRUB on this > > thing, but if I can't oh well. > > > > -brian > > > FreeBSD folks tend not to use Grub, but some of us > do use it as opposed > to FreeBSD's bootmanager. > > Please post the steps you use to install grub and > the output those steps > give you, and your grub.conf. > > -Garret #menu.lst default 0 timeout 7 fallback 1 #password --md5 some kind of password that is encypted splashimage (fd0)/boot/grub/opt/smurffed.xpm.gz title BSD root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader title Hold the Phone halt title Reset me reboot title Floppy Boot lock root (fd0) chainloader #EOF menu.lst here is my menu.lst off my grub install floppy. this was created by building grub 0.97 from ports on my HP Kayak. the floppy was then prepared as below: fdformat /dev/fd0 newfs -O1 -n /dev/fd0 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub/opt I then copied the grub files from the /usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd if memory serves me correct to the /mnt/boot/grub folder. then copied in my splashimages, then prepared menu.lst as described. I then ran grub and setup the floppy to boot grub. now to install on a system I: mkdir -p /boot/grub/opt mount /dev/fd0 /mnt; cp -R /mnt/boot/grub /boot/grub change menu.lst as required to reference hardrives or different boot options like a windows partition or linux or whatever needs to be started up. boot the system with the floppy and go to grub console. make sure I can find /boot/grub/menu.lst then... root (hd0,0,a) # or whatever setup (hd0) # again depends and usually I take the floppy out, reboot, and grub asks me what I want to boot up. as far as the exact output from grub I don't know, but it didn't give any errors. it just said: checking for /boot/grub/menu.lst.... found installing stage1.... success installing stage1_5.... success installing stage2..... success the typical everything is ok message. I have heard in later reading that a missing splashimage can mess things up, I will have to make sure I remembered to change the root for the image to the harddrive. But I have also read that this just happens sometimes with grub and certain machines. this is the only time I've seen it happen. I personally love me some grub. it just makes things easier in my world; at least usually. -brian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"