On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 21:58, Andre Costa wrote: > Hi, > > 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?). > > The bottom line is that machine is only bootable through GRUB shell > with: > > root (hd0,0) > configfile /grub/grub.conf > > Anyone knows how to fix this? I tried all its commands I thought I could > help (setup, install), with all possible parameters, to no avail. > > TIA > > Andre > > -- > Andre Oliveira da Costa You can reinstall from the grub command line. This is actually the recommended way. 1) root (hd0,0) #Where the kernel is vmlinux* 2) find /boot/grub/stage1 3) setup (hd0) Recheck the procedure if needed but I believe this is correct -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
