[ILUG] GRUB FAQ

[Timothy Murphy]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 09:42, Darragh Bailey wrote:

> > Typing configfile=/grub/menu.lst gets it started correctly.

In that case you are 99% of the way there!
It's only a matter of putting the info into /etc/grub.conf
which I think is normally a symbolic link to /boot/grub/grub.conf
and /boot/grub/menu.lst is also a like to the same file.

> look in at you grub.conf file the next time you booted up at home. It can
> be access from /etc/grub.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf .
>
> You'll most likely see a line in it with the string /boot/grub/menu.lst
> just remove the /boot part and it should work fine the next time.

I don't think that is quite accurate.
It depends if you have a separate /boot partition or not.
If you do have a boot partition, say /dev/hda2
then the entry in grub.conf should say something like
===============================
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=/dev/hda3
        initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
===============================
On the other hand, if you don't have a separate /boot partition
then you have to include the /boot eg 
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=/dev/hda3
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img

Then I'd say
grub-install --recheck /dev/hda
to install it on your first disk's MBR.



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