RE: CD boot not finding menu.lst

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Hi Don,

two questions:

1. on the command line: can you find your menu.lst with
   configfile (<TAB>

   what is offered here?   cd, hd, fd?

   are you able to TAB to your config file and can you 
   load it?

2. in which emulation mode did you create the cd?
     no emulation
     floppy emulation
     hd emulation

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Bossung [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:24 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: CD boot not finding menu.lst
> 
> 
> I have a server that is unable to boot from an external sata raid 
> enclosure I have. So I decided to create a custom initrd and 
> use grub to 
> boot from cd.
> 
> I followed the instructions in the grub manual chapter 3.4 
> and have been 
> successful in creating a boot cd. The problem is, after the 
> cd boots I 
> get the grub command line. From here I can use kernel=, 
> initrd= and boot 
> to boot the kernel just fine. So, what am I missing to get grub to 
> automatically use the lines in menu.lst to boot the os kernel.
> 
> More detail
> 
> This is the directory/file tree under the iso directory used to build 
> the iso file (where . = /tmp/iso)
> 
> .
> |-- boot
> |   |-- System.map-2.6.24.4-64.fc8
> |   |-- config-2.6.24.4-64.fc8
> |   |-- grub
> |   |   |-- menu.lst
> |   |   |-- splash.xpm.gz
> |   |   `-- stage2_eltorito
> |   |-- initrd-2.6.24.4-64.fc8-mod.img
> |   |-- initrd-2.6.24.4-64.fc8.img
> |   |-- lost+found
> |   `-- vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-64.fc8
> `-- boot.catalog
> 
> Here is menu.lst in ./boot/grub from above
> 
> timeout=10
> title MythDora (2.6.24.4-64.fc8)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-64.fc8 ro 
> root=/dev/MythVol/Root 
> rhgb quiet
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.24.4-64.fc8-mod.img
> 
> This setup boots to the grub> prompt on the cd. I can then enter
> 
> kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-64.fc8
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.24.4-64.fc8-mod.img
> boot
> 
> and the os kernel boots fine.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>