At 9:37 PM +0200 7/16/06, Nigel Henry wrote: >On Sunday 16 July 2006 20:01, Tony Nelson wrote: ... >> grub> boot(<TAB> >slight typo above, should be > grub> boot (<TAB> Oops, correct. >Yeh, the command works fine, giving me hd0, hd1, and hd2. If I'd known that >before getting into that stalemate situation of trying to install Grub on the >non-existant hd4, it would have saved so much time. Hopefully it will save someone some time. >The problem, particularly with bootloaders, whether Grub, or LiLo, is that >normally you don't have to mess with them. It's only when you start to get >involved with multiple installs, on more than one disk, that you need to >learn a bit more about them. Added to that, many man pages are not >particularly easy to work with, especially for newbies, and therefore the >bootloader appears to be some sort of "dark art", needing mysterious >incantations to get it to work. > >Personally, I'm always happy to learn more, and get my hands dirty under the >hood at the same time. the next thing is to set up a new list (pencil and >paper) of Grub commands. > >I still think the drive map is incorrect for FC2's grub, installed in the MBR >of hda, although it's working ok. > ># this device map was generated by anaconda >(fd0) /dev/fd0 >(hd0) /dev/hda >(hd1) /dev/hdb >(hd2) /dev/hdc > >I think I need to change the (hd2) /dev/hdc line to (hd2) /dev/hde, >as >hdc is the device for the cdwriter, and hde is the device name for the third >harddrive on the IDE PCI adaptor card. I'll try that later this evening. Seems reasonable to me. >Thanks for the command. You're welcome. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
