Grub

gate · n00b Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 33

I'm trying to install Gentoo on my main system and chance seem to get grub to work. I have gentoo installed on my second haddisk and just told the bios to boot of that disk. I belive that I have grub set up right.

hdb1 = /boot
hdb2 = /swap
hdb3 = /

grub commands I used after starting grub

root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1)
quit

menu.lst file
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default 0
timeout 20
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.zpm.gz

title=Gentoo
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb3
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When I try to reboot the system I just get a sprean saying GRUB in the corner. could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong.
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rac · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 5:53 am Post subject:

There's a possibility that changing your BIOS settings could effectively renumber the drives as GRUB sees them. Are you installing GRUB with the BIOS settings the way they will be when booting?
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gate · n00b Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 33

I have done the grub setup both ways. When the bios settings where set to boot ide0 drive0 and when the bios was set to boot ide0 drive1. Guess I will do the good old copy the boot sectors and have windows try and boot it trick. Anyone know if that still works with XP. Has been many years since I dual booted a machine.
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arifmamdani · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 21 Location: St. Paul, MN

I've never had a good time of trying to get the nt bootloader to boot linux. Sure, it works, but it's always been a pain, however I've successfully used grub to dual boot linux and win2k. I'm not sure if XP's boot system is the same as 2k, but it's worth a shot.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

You might want to investigate the map command mentioned in the Grub Manual.
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gate · n00b Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 33

Actually I messed up yesterday and wrote over drive0's MBR with grub and it all worked just fine so I told grub to load XP too. not the way I wanted to do it but it works so I can live with it.
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pilla · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 2:30 pm Post subject:

see this thread

EDIT < corrected typo >

gate · n00b Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 33

That is what I was planning on doing in the first place, just have window's bootloader load up grub. maybe I will change the way I do it someday but I'm not worried about it.
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