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Re: grub / redhat 7.1
From: |
Jeff Sheinberg |
Subject: |
Re: grub / redhat 7.1 |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:48:43 -0400 |
Ralf Kuebler writes:
> hello everybody,
>
> i tried to install the grub bootmanager to a testmachine in our
> environment and the following is my problem:
>
> - PIII Fujitsu Siemens
> - only ext2 filesystems on yhe whole disk.
> - I installed the tar file " grub-0.90.tar.gz " with tar xvf
> grub-0.90.tar after i gunzipped it.
> - i have the /boot/grub directotry with the 4 files device.map,
> e2fs_stage1_5, stage1, stage2
> - i created a bootdisk which brought me directly on that "grub-shell"
^^^^^^^^^^
Please, "grub shell" means "/sbin/grub" on this list. So, you
booted the grub boot floppy [diskette], and found yourself at the
"grub command line".
> - my lilo.conf file has the following entries:
>
> boot = /dev/hda
> map= /boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.p
> message=/boot/message
> linear
> default=linux
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz2-2.4.2-2
> label=linux
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda5
>
> - after i rebooted the machine with the grub on it i tried
^^^^^^^
It seems you just forgot this command, it is needed prior to the
"kernel..." command,
root (hd0,4)
>
> grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz2-2.4.2-2 root=/dev/hda5
^
because "/" means "root", you haven't told grub what the root
partition is.
>
> which gave me the knowm error 17
> "Cannot mount selected partition"
>
> in the grub-info-3 i read that this is a known bug. when will it be
> fixed, because i read an article which says grub is possible booting
> ext2 fs systems
>
> greetings from switzerland
>
> ralf kuebler
>
> D-MATH / Sysop
>
> http://www.math.ethz.ch/~rkuebler
>
>
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