On Wed, 05 May 2004 22:46:33 -0400 jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Thks for the tip. Believe me, I tried every possible way. I even used install directly (instead of setup). Also tried grub-install from the command-line. For some weird reason, when the machine boots GRUB still believes it is not on (hd0,0) and starts its shell. If I do the above procedure, I can boot, but just because I force him to use the correct (hd0,0) as root. Any other ideas? TIA, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
