On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 14:51 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > I had instructed the installation process to install GRUB in hda (the > disk where Windows XP was), but, contrary to my instruction, > apparently, no GRUB installation was performed in hda. Seemed that way on a friend's computer, too. > I also suspect that the installation routine is not correctly written > regarding this issue. 'twas my conclusion, too. > An by the way: how could one manually install GRUB in hda? See the grub info file for details, but in a nutshell: Boot a rescue disc. When you get a console, type in: grub (if grub can't be found, you might have "cd" around 'till you find where it's stored) Inside this new GRUB shell, type: root (hd1,0) (or wherever *your* /boot partition is) Then type: find (hd1,0)/grub/stage1 (that'll check that it can find what it needs where you told it to look) Then type: setup (hd0) (that'll set up the bootblock) Finally, type: quit (which finalises things, as well as exits) I suspect that anybody trying to avoid a /boot *partition* and just use a boot directory, is going to be in a bit of a bind for dual booting or with hardware that doesn't handle large discs very well. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
