Re: Help with installing grub to disk

[Derrik Pates]

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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Collins Richey wrote:

> This isn't a bug, but I'm hoping that someone can help me.  I've read
> quite a few grub installation instructions, and I just don't get it.
> The biggest disadvantage of grub, IMHO, is that you need to be a rocket
> scientist to make it work!

Well, it's actually not so hard, it's just finding the right method - fact
is, there's more than one.

> I'm able to boot all three (Win98, FreeBSD, and linux from the floppy).
> I have a copy of all the /boot/grub stuff including the menu.lst on the
> Win98 partition and on the linux partition.  I've managed to get grub
> installed to the mbr, but I can't get it to find the menu.lst. I have to
> key in the root, kernel, etc. manually when booting from the hard drive.

Where did you put menu.lst? A standard GRUB install will expect to find it
in /boot/grub.

> How can I get grub reinstalled to utilize the menu.lst in the Win98
> partition (This is permanent; other partitions could be overwritten at
> any time)?

You'd have to start the GRUB shell and manually invoke 'install',
specifying an alternate location for Stage 2 to look for the config file
at. Something like:

    root (hd0,0)
    install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 /menu.lst

I believe would be the appropriate syntax. Of course, with the GRUB files
on a FAT-based partition, if you defrag that disk, GRUB may likely not
start anymore (due to the blocklists suddenly being invalid and all...),
so don't be surprised.

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