No stage1 in Grub???

[lochrist]

OK I tried to install GRub on my MBR during the installation of Gentoo and I had an error. Here are my system
Specs :

(hd0,0) /dev/hda1 : windows 2000 with NTFS
(hd1,1) /dev/hdb2 : boot partition ext2
(hd1,3) /dev/hdb4 : root parition ext3

so I typed grub. and I got the the Grub prompt :

grub> root (hd1,3)
grub> setup (hd0)
if /boot/grub/stage1 ... not exist.
if /grub/stage1.. not exist.
can't install

(i'm not 100% sure of the errror messages but it was something like that).

I thought it was because my boot partion wasn't mount. So I exit from grub. Mount the partition (it was already mounted). I checked if the file stage1 was in the /boot/grub directory (it was there) and I retried to install GRub. And I got the same error message!

So I made a Grub boot disk (on a Floppy).

Then I boot from the disk. At first I tried to load my kernel :

grub>root (hd1,3)
grub>kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb4

and I got a : can't find file message. But i'm 100% sure that my kernel was on my boot partition (I checked at the same time I checked for the stage1 file).


After that I tried to install Grub from the floppy :

grub> root (hd1,3)
grub> setup (hd0)
if /boot/grub/stage1 ... not exist.
if /grub/stage1.. not exist.
can't install

and I got the same error messages!

Any ideas? Thanks

Lochrist

[haylocki]

I think your problem is that you are confusing what GRUB means by 'root'

To you and me its the root partition, but to GRUB its the boot partition.

so I think you need

grub> root (hd1,1)
grub> setup (hd0)


Hope this helps,confuses the hell out of me when I'm trying to set GRUB up

Ian

[lochrist]

OK i'm a bit dumb... I can't even read the Install instructions correctly!

Thanks for helping me!