Le dimanche 30 Janvier 2005 15:09, Paul Howarth a écrit : > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 17:04 +0100, Daniel Moyne wrote: > > I may have an explanation for the error message ; in "/boot/grub" I do > > not have a file called "menu.lst" not installed for unknown reasons ; the > > problem is that with my present knowledge of the FC3 system I do not know > > how to edit GRUB files from nothing ; can you send me the files supposed > > to be contained in "/boot/grub" directory for me to tailor them to my > > present setup ; there may be : > > - "menu.lst", > > - "messages", > > - "fr-latin1.klt", > > at least. > > These might appear once you have actually installed grub. > > A suitable /boot/grub/grub.conf for your FC3 install might be: > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this > file > # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. > # root (hd1,0) > # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1 > # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hdb1 > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) > root (hd1,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img > > You might want to make sure that the following symlinks are in place > after installing grub, as they would be if anaconda had installed it: > > /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf > > In /boot/grub: > menu.lst -> ./grub.conf > > > Now from what I know about LILO and GRUB is it possible to install LILO > > on FC3 as : > > - it can be configured from KDE control center, > > - from a "menu.lst" example that I have in front of me there are lines > > like (hd0,n) where n indicates the partition number ! ; why not hda1, > > hdb2...etc... ; could not believe it ! > > Grub is not specifically a Linux tool, it is suitable for booting a > variety of operating systems, not all of which use the same partition > naming conventions as Linux. So grub has its own naming convention for > partition, which is explained in the grub documentation (see > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ for more details). > Paul, thanks to yout info on GRUB configuration I aws able to boot fromm LILO on to GRUB ans select any of 2 separate kernels ; I stll have to set resolution and vga=791 as in LILO dos nor work maybe I need hexadecimal value ? That will be all for today ! Regards -- Daniel Moyne (Nulix)---------------------------------------------------------- Distribution : Mandrake 10.0 \\|// kernel 2.4 / --- \ KDE 3.2 (' o-o ') ------------------------------------oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------------
