Re: Help with install of Grub2 (1.98) with Cygwin under Windows 7

[Gregg Levine]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:50 PM, J.V. <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have two disks in my system (neither of which are Linux).
>
> Disk 1:    Windows 7 on (Sata connection 1)
> Disk 2:    VMWare ESXi (Sata connection 2)
>
> The only way I could get grub (1.98) installed on the Windows 7 disk was to
> install cygwin and use the grub utilities there.
>
> I did a grub-install and then grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
> ---
> After rebooting, I was taken to the grub> prompt
>
> which was very unexpected.
>
> I should have been given a graphical selection of the two OS's on the two
> disks that I have.
>
> => It was not possible to install grub using CentOS 5.6 live CD or CentOS
> 5.6 Installation CD so had to use cygwin.
>
> If it is possible to get a simple graphical display of the OS's please let
> me know.
>
> Also with the grub-install there was no defaults file provided anywhere.
>  All the documentation suggests there would be a /etc/default/grub file but
> there is none.
>
> In fact there is no /default/ directory at all but rather a /defaults/
> directory.
>
>
>
> J.V.
>
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