On Friday 17 June 2005 15:21, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Edwin Olson wrote: > > I did a clean FC4 install to the second disk (hdb) of my x86 machine. > > hda is Windows. During install, I requested grub be written to hda, > > and upon reboot, grub runs. > > > > But grub can't find its config file, so it dumps me at a command prompt. > > > > I can proceed normally by typing 'configfile /grub/grub.conf'. The > > menu pops up and I can boot both windows or linux just fine. > > > > What can I do to make grub automatically find its config file in this > > most obvious of locations? :) Could there be a bug that I'm tickling, > > since the config file is on hdb instead of hda? > > > > -Ed > > try /boot/grub/grub.conf. This is where the file resides, not where some > strange ( non standard? ) link is. There's a standard symlink from > /etc/grub.conf, but that's all I know about. > > Steve Hi Edwin: Did you set the location of boot as /dev/hdb? See below. If not, it's trying to find /boot on /dev/hda. Tom # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< change default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,707 and counting