On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:19:40 -0400, From: Douglas Allan Tutty replied: > What happens if you reboot the installer in rescue mode and tell it to > install grub again? I don't know how to do this yet, but it sounds like it's worth looking into. I'm hoping not to have to run the whole build again. > Does the box have a floppy and do you have a grub-disk (I've never made > a grub-stick)? Will that get you to a grub command line? It does have a floppy. I do not have a grub-disk. I do have a second (newer) box that is happily running Etch. And on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:28:04 -0500, "Mumia W.." wrote: > If you can, try to get the boot files placed before the 1024th cylinder > boundary. Sometimes this is at 0.5GB, 2.1GB or 8GB. Try a partition > layout like so ... This is exactly what I always did with Red Hat and lilo on a drive that shared Windows and Linux. I could easily try this again but thought it should be unnecessary for two reasons. First, I am using grub now, which I thought supported lba by default. Second, without the whole drive allocated to Etch (i.e. no Windows partition at the start of the drive), I imagined the files needed by grub would not be placed past cylinder 1024. But maybe that's unpredictable. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
