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Re: Trying to use Grub


From: Thierry Laronde
Subject: Re: Trying to use Grub
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 21:28:06 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.0.1i

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:47:42PM +0100, Dieter Stuebinger wrote:
> Please help me:
> I´ve got a hard disk 40 Gbyte, Windows Me installed and I´ve partitioned for 
> Linux which now ist starting only by floppy.
> checking the harddisk by fdisk /dev/hda in SuSE.linux I get folowing 
> information:
> /dev/hda1 *  FAT32  Id c  LBA
> /dev/hda2    FAT32 Extd  Id f LBA
> /dev/hda5    FAT32  Id b
> /dev/hda6    FAT32  Id b
> /dev/hda7    FAT16  Id 6
> /dev/hda8    Linux  Id 83
> /dev/hda9    Linux swap  Id 82
> /dev/hda10  Linux  Id 83
> Trying to use GRUB 0.5.96.1-i386-pc I`ve started from floppy grub> 
> rootnoverify 
> (hd0,0)  -- grub>makeactive  --- grub>chainloader +1  ---grub>boot  and 
> hurrah 
> the windows Me configuration was started.
> But trying to find boot configuration for Linux I´m driving to despair. 
> I used the `find` command grub>find /vmlinuz and got the answer hd0,7.
> trying to load grub>kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda? I used any number from 1 
> to 
> 10 but got always answer "cannot mount the partition".

try :

> root (hd0,7)
> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8

Cheers,
-- 
Thierry LARONDE <address@hidden>
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