On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:19:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] > [... stuff about trying grub and various partition options] > > I have not yet tried the suggestion of making a grub disk but may if I can > figure out what to do with it.
I agree with trying a grub disk. you can boot the system like this from the grub command line grub> root (hd0,0) #that tells grub to use the first partition of the first disk. it should return something about the file system. grub> kernel /boot/linux-image<insert appropriate info here> root=hda2 \ ro single #note this is all on one line. You can use grubs find feature or its tab completiong to get the complete filename grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6blahblahblah #use tab completion again, but make sure it matches the kernel grub> boot #this will fire up the boot. Also, if lilo worked before, then maybe you should use lilo again until you can get it sorted out. A
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