On (23/06/03 16:11), Kent West wrote: > > Thanks for the response, Clive. Turns out I was doing things the proper > way; it's just that something was screwy with the MBR I reckon. (hd0 > refers to the first hard drive that the BIOS lists, not to the first > hard drive on the first IDE port -- go figure). > > Anyway, I finally got tired of fighting it, and wiped the partitions and > repartitioned (using slightly different sizes to make sure I didn't just > resurrect the old setup) and reinstalled the Hurd, and this time grub > installed to the hard drive like it was supposed to. I have no explanation. > > I'm going to wipe it once more and do it again, just for experimentation > purposes, before continuing on into Hurd-land.
I do like GRUB (I use LILO on two servers) for dual boot systems - but I can't say I really understand it yet ;) Good luck with Hurd Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
