I found the folution! I simply needed to do the
following, without which grub couldn't find the
stuff in /boot/grub:
to find the stuff in /boot/grub until I did the
following:
cd /boot
ln -s . boot
Not sure why that was. At any rate, for the record
here are all the steps on how I got my FC1 system
(upgraded from RH7.1) to successfull upgrade from using
lilo to using grub:
[ Install the RPM: ]
rpm -ivh grub-0.93-7.i386.rpm
rehash
[ Use this in /boot/grub/grub.conf: ]
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda11
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#
# NOTE: default=0 means use the first one
#
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img
[ Set up grub conf files... The boot link was needed
because otherwise it wouldn't find menu.lst ... must
be a better way but I needed this hack to work! ]
chmod 644 /boot/grub/grub.conf
cd /boot/grub/
ln -s ./grub.conf menu.lst
cd /etc
ln -s ../boot/grub/grub.conf .
cd /boot
ln -s . boot
[ Install grub as the boot loader: ]
grub-install /dev/hda
[ Confirm successful installation: ]
grub
[ Then in the grub prompts:
root (hd0,0) defines where your boot partition is
[(hd0,0)=hda, (hd0,4)=hd5...].
setup (hd0,4) installs grub in hda's MBR: ]
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf"... succeeded
Done.
grub> quit
[ Reboot: ]
shutdown -r now
Forwarded message:
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> Thanks a lot for your message back. /boot does have its
> own partition which is in /etc/fstab and was mounted
> at the time of the grub-install. I am going to
> try some more noodling and googling to see if
> I can figure this out.
>
> [root@duey1 ~]# grep boot /etc/fstab
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> [root@duey1 ~]# df /boot
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 38859 12863 23990 35% /boot
>
> [root@duey1 ~]# ls /boot/grub
> device.map fat_stage1_5 grub.conf menu.lst reiserfs_stage1_5 stage1 vstafs_stage1_5
> e2fs_stage1_5 ffs_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 minix_stage1_5 splash.xpm.gz stage2 xfs_stage1_5
>
> Steve
>
> > From talbotscott@xxxxxxx Tue Mar 30 00:41:58 2004
> > Subject: Re: Grub problems after RH7.1->FC1 Upgrade
> > From: Scott Talbot
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 18:40, Steve Thorpe wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I upgraded an RH7.1 box to FC1 and it went fairly smoothly.
> > > One thing I noticed after the upgrade though -- it was
> > > still using lilo and grub hadn't been installed. So I
> > > installed & attempted to configure grub, with only partial
> > > success - it manages to boot to the grub> prompt but then
> > > it waits for me to manually finish the boot procedure by
> > > entering these commands by hand:
> > >
> > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp root=/dev/hda5
> > > initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img
> > > boot
> > >
> > > I really really want this to be automated at bootup!
> > > There must be something really simple that I am missing -
> > > right? Any advice would be very much appreciated. Some
> > > more info on how I installed follows FYI.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot,
> > >
> > My best guess is that /boot has not been set up properly. Did you give
> > it a separate partition when you installed?
> > If you did, put it on its own partition, there should be a reference to
> > it in your /etc/fstab and that needed to be mounted when you ran the
> > grub-install command.
> >
> > Scott
