On Sun, 09 May 2004 12:43:26 +0100 Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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)? Mmmh... now _that's_ something I hadn't tried, thks for pointing that out. I will try it tomorrow (I don't have physical access to the machine right now). > If it still goes to the wrong boot, try > grub> configfile > in your interactive session, > to see where it thinks your grub.conf is. Well, I remember it thought the root partition was (hd0,2) and not (hd0,0) as it should be. As a result, there was no /grub dir and it got stuck. > Maybe the link between /etc/grub.conf and /boot/grub/grub.conf > got broken in some way. It is set to: ~ ls -l /etc/grub.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 5 12:02 /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf When you mentioned it, I thought the leading '..' could be the culprit, but then I checked and my configuration here at home is just the same, so I guess it is ok, right? Thks for the tips, I will post back here the results as soon as I have them. Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
