Thomas Taylor wrote:
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
Updating a commented out line is unlikely to make much of a difference
(: I suggest pointing to root being on /dev/hdb as follows instead...
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
root (hd0,1) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
Steve