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Re: "grub" command works, but GRUB boot loader hangs
From: |
Wilhelm Wienemann |
Subject: |
Re: "grub" command works, but GRUB boot loader hangs |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Aug 2001 08:21:06 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.3.19i |
Hello Ben!
On Sat, 04 Aug 2001, Ben Liblit wrote:
> I am trying to use GRUB 0.90 on a Linux/Windows machine. My GRUB
> build is courtesy of Red Hat's "grub-0.90-7.i386.rpm", which is part
> of their recently announced beta release.
>
> The "grub" command, run under Linux, works just fine. It correctly
> identifies my hard drives and their respective partitions. However,
> using GRUB as a boot loader does not work. It misidentifies my hard
> drives and hangs on any nontrivial attempt to access them. LILO, by
> contrast, works just fine.
[...]
> As I said, the "grub" command run under Linux identifies everything
> correctly. It looks like I would use (hd1,0) and (hd1,2) to boot
> Windows and Linux, respectively.
>
> However, I decided to try out a boot floppy first. I built the floppy
> disk using "cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0" and booted it.
AFAIK you can use "grub-install '(fd0)'" instead.
> Now things start to fall apart.
Maybe you have to make a link in /boot like the description in
FAQ 11 (cd /boot && ln -s . boot).
bye - Wilhelm
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