Re: still no luck with grub

[Daniel Senderowicz]

I GOT IT!

Here is what I did:

1) I generated a grub floppy (on an empty floppy) by doing:

prompt> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
prompt> mkdir /mnt/floppy/boot; mkdir /mnt/floppy/boot/grub
prompt> cp -p /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage* /mnt/floppy/boot/grub

2) I called /sbin/grub and did:

grub> root (fd0)
grub> setup (fd0)
grub> quit

3) I rebooted the system with the floppy inserted and got the
"grub>" prompt.

Here is where it gets tricky. For some obscure reason to me,
perhaps related to the fact that is a SCSI disk controlled by an
AIC-7880, the grub device under the emulator is (hd1), while
under the grub program itself is (hd0). So it follows like this:

4) Remove the floppy and did:

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)

and came a message saying what was done in terms of the "install"
command (can't remember now).

5) Here is the tricky part. I re-typed the same command "install"
printed before with the addition of the parameter 'd' right after
the "stage1" stuff.

6) Rebooted and got the grub screen from which I was able to choose
the kernel to boot.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Dan


>Things are getting worse out here. Before I was getting the
>"grub>" prompt. But after I did the "setup" I only get a string
>"GRUB" and hangs. Furthermore, on the setup that anaconda did
>automatically during the RH installation, the HD was (hd0), but
>after doing the "setup" it changed to (hd1). Here is the
>transaction:
>
>grub> root (hd1,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>
>grub> setup (hd1)
> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
> Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
> Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
> Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
> Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"...  16 sectors are embedded.
>succeeded
> Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd1) (hd1)1+16 p (hd1,0)/grub/stage2 
> /grub/grub.conf"... succeeded
>Done.