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problem loading grub from HD
From: |
Warren Pollans |
Subject: |
problem loading grub from HD |
Date: |
Thu, 2 May 2002 12:16:55 -0400 |
Hello,
I don't believe this is a bug - possibly a mis-configuration on my part. Feel
free to point me to another list.
I'm having a problem getting grub to load from my HD (see #3 below). I believe
that my grub.conf file is OK (see #2 below). In a sense my problem is academic
since I have to reboot to change OS's - and it's no problem to leave my grub
boot floppy in the drive - BUT it bothers me that I can't get this to work.
Grub works fine on another box with three different flavors of linux
I have win2k and RH7.2 installed. After the RH install (which installed grub)
I have not been able to boot using grub. I've included both the output from
"fdisk -l" and the grub.conf file
NOTE: I have /boot mounted as a separate partition - /dev/hda6 or (hd0,5)
(1) I can boot either win2k or linux from the grub commandline - I get there
via a grub floppy to which I've dd'd stage1 and stage2, as described in the
info docs
(2) I get the grub menu, from which I can boot either OS, by booting from
another grub floppy to which I have cp'd stage1, stage2, and grub.conf
(3) All attempts to install grub on my HD have failed - I've tried all (I
believe) of the suggestions in the FAQ and info docs. Depending on which
method I use the boot hangs with either "GRUB Loading stage2 ..." or "GRUB
Loading stage1_5 ..." - the number of dots in the message varies
(4) One unusual piece of weirdness is that if I mv e2fs_stage1_5 to
e2fs_stage1_5.bak "setup (hd0)" still finds even though it's not there.
However, "find e2fs_stage1_5" fails, as it should
Thanks,
Warren
---------[ fdisk -l output ]----------
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1826 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 701 5630751 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 702 1825 9028530 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 702 962 2096451 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 963 968 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 969 1760 6361708+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1761 1825 522081 82 Linux swap
--------[ /boot/grub/grub.conf ]-------------
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,5)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda7
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
debug
default=0
fallback=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-31)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-31 ro root=/dev/hda7
initrd /initrd-2.4.9-31.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda7
initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img
title Win2K
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
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