On 10/12/2010 8:11 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:57:09PM -0500, David Gaudine wrote:
Here I have a big problem. The guide said to run grub and do
root(hd0,0)
setup(hd0)
and repeat for the other disk. I don't have an executable file "grub".
grub-pc is installed. After a bit of reading I tried this:
Are you trying it as root?
I assume you mean the part about root(hd0,0), not the part later that
you snipped. I did try it as root. The first problem is, on this and
on my working Squeeze system I don't have an executable file called
Grub, although I do have grub-install. When I boot it boots directly to
grub, but "root(hd0,0)" (or any other values instead of the zeros) gives
an error.
With a system set up using the Squeeze beta2 installer, should I be
running grub or grub-install? It seems that the command that clobbered
my system was
grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda
I tried that again in rescue mode, with the same effect; a message that
the command was successful, but an unbootable system.
My first mistake was I didn't reboot after installing Squeeze and before
trying to install Grub, so I don't even know if the installer left me
with a bootable system that I then messed up or if the system was never
bootable. I'll be away for a couple of days but then I'll reinstall.
David
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