At 00:06 06/01/2009, you wrote: >On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:02:47AM +0000, trotter wrote: > > At 21:06 05/01/2009, you wrote: > > >Thanks James - that solved it. > > > > > >I found that the /boot in /etc/fstab was commented out, but I checked in > > >cfdisk and I definitely did have a boot partition. I uncommented the > > >line and mounted it and then edited the menu.lst file on that partition. > > >It then worked first time! :-) > > > > > > Are you saying every single line in menu.lst is commented out? > > and thus grub goes and finds menu.lst elsewhere. > > No, he's saying that the menu.lst he was editing wasn't the one the >system was using. He mounted the filesystem that grub was looking at, >and edited the menu.lst on there, and it all worked.
Duh! Misread the email, thanks for the clarification. Martin N -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
