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Grub installs correctly, but doesn't load menu.lst
From: |
Johan Simon Seland |
Subject: |
Grub installs correctly, but doesn't load menu.lst |
Date: |
04 Sep 2001 10:20:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/20.7 |
Hello, tonight I tried to convert a friends machine to dual boot W98
and Linux (RH7.1). But I ran into some trouble when setting up the
bootloader.
The layout of the devices on the IDE controller is:
(hd0,*) Old and ountouched W98 partitions (6.5 GB)
/dev/hdc CD-RW
(hd1,*) New disk for Linux only (13 GB)
(This layout is to not upset the W98 configuration, I could not get
the machine to identify both HD's when they were on the same channel.)
Installation to /dev/hdd was successfull, and the layout is
(hd1,0) /boot (50MB) (/dev/hdd1
(hd1,4) swap (256MB) (/dev/hdd5)
(hd1,5) / The rest (/dev/hdd6)
I've installed GRUB 0.90 from the Rawhide RPMS, and issued the
/boot/boot hack (cd /boot && ln -s . boot/)
Then:
# grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda
I've also created a (hd1,0)/grub/menu.lst (symlinked to
(hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst like this
---------- menu.lst ----------
timeout 10
default 0
title Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd6 ro
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
---------- menu.lst ----------
Grub reports no errors found and seems happy. When I boot the machine
it boots into the GRUB shell, and doesn't load menu.lst. I can't tell
if it prints any error messages or not. The screen scrolls very fast
before it jump into the GRUB shell.
However issuing configfile (hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst loads the menu
and the entries works fine.
I have also tried grub-install with all combinations of
--root-directory, --force-lba, --recheck to no avail.
Any ideas?
(BTW, machine is a Celeron 466 on a Gigabyte 6BXE mainboard, SB128,
NE2000PCI, El Cheapo graphics adapter. (hd0) is a Western Digital disk
of some kind, (hd1) is a Quantum Fireball)
--
Jos^2e
- Grub installs correctly, but doesn't load menu.lst,
Johan Simon Seland <=