Re: [newbie] Re: Retain MBR (reload GRUB?)
I've had problems with this as well. I select grub during install, but I usually get LILO anyway. Once it installed grub, but did not load the console with the resolution I requested. I have tried several times with Mandrake Control Center to load Grub and it always boots with Lilo. I try to manually install Grub and there isn't even a /boot/grub/install.sh. menu.lst is there, but install.sh is not. It's weird. I suppose I can use LILO, but I am very curious about this. I think there is indeed a bug here. --- philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about posting what is in your menu.lst - maybe its not booting from the proper kernel image ?? philomena At 10:38 PM 4/26/01 -0400, Jay DeKing wrote: OK, so I logged in as root, ran /boot/grub/install.sh (after making sure that menu.lst was correct) - I still get stage1 Read Error. What am I missing here? GRUB ran fine when I installed Mandrake 7.2, then I had a Win98 disaster and had to completely format hda1. Linux is on hdb. I should think that there would be a way to get GRUB working again without reinstalling Mandrake. Here is how my drives are set up: hda is Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives; hdb is 40gigs, Mandrake 7.2, split up into /, /home, /usr, /var, and swap; hde is also Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives. 100 gigs of space and I'm booting off a floppy. Sheesh. Jay philomena wrote: the file is actually in /boot/grub, and is called install.sh - just run it from the command line and grub will be installed. The grub info grub uses is in the file menu.lst - take a look at that and make sure it points to the proper partitions. cheers, philomena -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Re: Retain MBR (reload GRUB?)
philomena wrote: How about posting what is in your menu.lst - maybe its not booting from the proper kernel image ?? philomena At 10:38 PM 4/26/01 -0400, Jay DeKing wrote: OK, so I logged in as root, ran /boot/grub/install.sh (after making sure that menu.lst was correct) - I still get stage1 Read Error. Ask and you shall receive! Here it is, my menu.lst file (which did work correctly until I had to format the Win98 drive): timeout 5 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd1,0)/boot/grub/messages keytable (hd1,0)/boot/us.klt altconfigfile (hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.once default 4 title linux kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-secure root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy vga=788 title linux-up kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy title failsafe kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy failsafe title hack kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-hack root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy vga=788 initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-hack.img title windows root (hd0,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 And my device.map file: (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdb (hd2) /dev/hde The expected GRUB message (from /boot/grub/messages) doesn't pop up on the screen when I boot. The normal BIOS operations run fine, but at the point where the computer looks for a boot device the message 'stage1 Read Error' appears unless there is a floppy inserted. Thanks, Jay DeKing -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
Re: [newbie] Re: Retain MBR (reload GRUB?)
How about posting what is in your menu.lst - maybe its not booting from the proper kernel image ?? philomena At 10:38 PM 4/26/01 -0400, Jay DeKing wrote: OK, so I logged in as root, ran /boot/grub/install.sh (after making sure that menu.lst was correct) - I still get stage1 Read Error. What am I missing here? GRUB ran fine when I installed Mandrake 7.2, then I had a Win98 disaster and had to completely format hda1. Linux is on hdb. I should think that there would be a way to get GRUB working again without reinstalling Mandrake. Here is how my drives are set up: hda is Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives; hdb is 40gigs, Mandrake 7.2, split up into /, /home, /usr, /var, and swap; hde is also Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives. 100 gigs of space and I'm booting off a floppy. Sheesh. Jay philomena wrote: the file is actually in /boot/grub, and is called install.sh - just run it from the command line and grub will be installed. The grub info grub uses is in the file menu.lst - take a look at that and make sure it points to the proper partitions. cheers, philomena -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
Re: [newbie] Re: Retain MBR (reload GRUB?)
OK, so I logged in as root, ran /boot/grub/install.sh (after making sure that menu.lst was correct) - I still get stage1 Read Error. What am I missing here? GRUB ran fine when I installed Mandrake 7.2, then I had a Win98 disaster and had to completely format hda1. Linux is on hdb. I should think that there would be a way to get GRUB working again without reinstalling Mandrake. Here is how my drives are set up: hda is Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives; hdb is 40gigs, Mandrake 7.2, split up into /, /home, /usr, /var, and swap; hde is also Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives. 100 gigs of space and I'm booting off a floppy. Sheesh. Jay philomena wrote: the file is actually in /boot/grub, and is called install.sh - just run it from the command line and grub will be installed. The grub info grub uses is in the file menu.lst - take a look at that and make sure it points to the proper partitions. cheers, philomena -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
