On 10/22/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> Paul, > >>>> What exactly are you trying to do? Because what you are doing does > >>>> not make much sense. You are installing Grub stage 1 in the boot > >>>> record of the second and third partition of the third hard drive. > >>> Thanks, Mikkel. I am so frustrated with this that I may be doing > >>> things without sense. But let me try to be clearer: > >>> > >>> I am trying to boot in the F7 partition, which is in /dev/sdc2 and > >>> /dev/sdc3 (it is lvm). What precisely should I do in order to be > >>> successful with booting in it? > >>> > >> Are you telling the BIOS to boot from that drive, or are you booting > >> from another drive? > > > > Yes, Mikkel, the disk from which I want to boot has the highest > > priority in BIOS.. > > > > > OK - this gets a bit tricky, because when you boot from this drive, > it is no longer hd2 - it is hd0. So Grub will be looking for its > files in the wrong place. What I would do is edit your Grub > configuration file to reflect this. > > I would install Grub to the MBR or the disk. This will be (hd2) in > your current setup. After booting from the drive, you will probably > get the Grub prompt, because it is looking for its files in the > wrong place. You should then be able to run something like: > > grub> root (hd0,1) > grub> setup (hd0) > > This should install a properly updated Grub to the correct hard > drive. You can then reboot and you should get the Grub menu, or it > should start loading Linux, depending on your Grub configuration. Done that, but, when rebooting, I get again the grub prompt. Paul
