Help--Grub Problem--Thanks

[Netdale]

Ok, heres the problem, I'm done with almost everything in the install doc. In #16 it asks you to use install grub. Here is where the problem lays.

# gurb
grub> root (hd0,0) --- Completes w/o error
grub>setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
Error 15: File Not Found


What should I do, when I cd into /boot/grub/

stage1 is there, ah, frusterating.

I've read the forums and this article

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2878&highlight=error+grub

seems very similar, yet I'm not quite sure what all he did.

My harddrive layout is as follows.

Boot /dev/hda1 ext3
Swap /dev/hda2 swap
Linux /dev/hda3 ext3

Thanks for all your help
Dale
[url]mailto:netdale@excite.com[/url]

[Netdale]

Sry about the email thing,

netdale@excite.com
Thanks Again
Dale

[tsuru]

Well first I'll ask the obvious.... Do you have your /boot partition mounted?

Second, do you have any other hard drives in the system that GRUB might think is hd0 yet "shouldn't" be??

[Netdale]

Ok, well I used

root (hd0,2)
setup (hd0)

and grub ran succesfully, what exactly does that mean?
Somehow I installed linux to the wrong partition?

LOL, a noob trialing and erroring, and in the processes learning.

Thanks Dale

[huw]

I would say that means you forgot to mount /dev/hda1 on /boot. GRUB is now telling you that it is going to boot from the boot directory of your / partition. This is ok - you dont *need* a boot partition.... just make sure you put the kernel bzImage into /boot on /dev/hda3 not onto /dev/hda1

Hope that's makes sense

[Netdale]

Yes, thanks so much everyone

I think I got it

Gentoo; so far its been the most problematic yet speedy and stable distro I've used

Dale