Andre Costa wrote: >> > I tried installing GRUB on a machine today, and even though I >> > insisted it should boot from the first partition (/boot on >> > /dev/hda1), it stopped all the times right after boot with its own >> > shell prompt. Typing 'root' showed me it was believing "hd0,2" (3rd >> > partition) was the root partition -- hell knows why it thought that >> > (faulty BIOS maybe?). Did you try "grub-install --recheck /dev/hda" (assuming you want grub installed on the MBR)? If it still goes to the wrong boot, try grub> configfile in your interactive session, to see where it thinks your grub.conf is. Maybe the link between /etc/grub.conf and /boot/grub/grub.conf got broken in some way. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
