On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:19, Thiers Botelho wrote: > Hi all, > > > I have this situation: > > - I used partimage from a Live CD on my old box to generate images > from my /boot and root FC1 partitions (that was a dual-boot with Win 2K). > > - Then I restored both images to my new box - that's another > dual-boot, now with Win XP. > > - Next, from the Live CD (that's sysrrescd 02.15), I ran e2fsck on > both partitions. > > - Mounted both partitions from the Live CD, edited /etc/fstab (new > location of swap partition) and /boot/grub.conf (new location of root > partition). > > - Backups were made of previous versions of fstab and grub.conf, > and checked that auths and owners remained the same on new versions. > > - Next I used fdisk to make /boot bootable. > > - My first boot manager is GAG, which points both to Windoze and > to GRUB on /boot . > > > And then I have this problem: > > When pointing the GAG boot manager to /boot , grub screen DOES NOT > show up. Instead I get the plain word GRUB on top left corner, plus a > cursor which does not accept keyboard input. > > > Additional info: > > I was able to boot into FC1 using an old boot disk, after changing > the location of the root partition. So I believe the real problem is to > get GRUB to work properly. > > > Obvious question: > > - What could be the tiny detail that I forgot ??? > > > Thnx all ! > > Thiers http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html That link should answer all your questions. Ted
