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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

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Can someone help me with grub?

I've installed it. My grub.conf file is below.

My partitions are:
hda1 > /boot ext3
hda2 > /     <---root for sourcemage 1
hda3 > /home
hda5 > /     <---root for testing sourcemage
hda6 > swap

When I run "/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda" I get :

"Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive."


and when I reboot I get lilo so I'm guessing it's not installing grub.

/boot/grub/grub.conf:

# The grub spell attempts to create a sensible skeletin file which you
# can edit to create a working menu.lst file.  Use this as a guide, but
# be sure to look over any drive/partition specifications [ things that
# look like (hd0,0) for example ] and root= entries, as the autodetection
# mechannism isn't perfect.  In cases where there is more than one
# partition containing the files grub searches for, the first match is
# assumed.  If you multi-boot linux from multiple, different partitions
# there is a chance it detected the wrong partition, so you need to
# manually check and edit this accordingly.

boot=(hd0,0)

# defaults to the first menu entry
default 0

# timeout in 10 seconds in no choice is made
timeout 10

# uncomment the next line if you wish to use LBA (usual for large IDE
drives)
lba32

# defines menu foreground/background, highlight foreground/background
color  black/light-gray white/red

# be sure and check the kernel entry below, particulary the  entry.
Possible partitions detected were , of
# which the first was assumed arbitrarilly.
# as well as the root= entry.  You may also wish to add additional
arguments,
# such as ide-scsi= if you're using an IDE CDROM burner.

title Sourcemage
~        root (hd0,0)
~        kernel /linux-2.4.21-hda2 ro root=/dev/hda2


title Testing
~        root (hd0,0)
~        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21 ro root=/dev/hda5




Dufflebunk wrote:
| If you think it's LILO, have you tried grub?
|
| On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 01:02, Duane Malcolm wrote:
|
|>Hamish Greig wrote:
|> > - From "man lilo" but whether it can cause slow boot as well as the
|>hang you
|> > would need to find out.
|> > nobd   Suppresses the BIOS data check.  This option is reserved for use
|> >               with non-IBM-compliant BIOS's which hang with the lines:
|> >
|> >                    Loading...............
|> >                    BIOS data check
|> >
|> > Hamish
|>The problem isn't after the "BIOS data check" but during the
|>"Loading..............." part, this takes 15-20 sec. I tried the "nobd"
|>and it still boots but doesn't load/uncompress the kernel faster.
|>
|>To add to the mix. The kernel is uncompressed faster from the Sourcemage
|>boot CD. I don't know why I didn't try this earlier. I think I noticed
|>an "initrd" which I have been thinking about trying but am not sure how
|>it works or how to do it.
|>
|>To me this result kind of points to lilo not knowing how to access the
|>disc properly. But I don't understand the boot-up process to say
|>anymore. What do others think??
|>
|>Maybe, I'll boot from CD all the time.
|>
|>Duane.
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