Please excuse me if this query is off-topic. I decided to try Grub2 under the mistaken impression that Grub "legacy" was a thing of the past and to be avoided ... anyway, I hope my feedback will be of some use.
I had a problem with it that seems so basic that I must have made an obvious mistake, or it might just be that I mis-read the Fine Manual ;-) I have a PC with two hard drives. It has windows 2000 on hd0 and linux on hd1 (root on partition 1, no separate /boot). I ran "grub-install --debug /dev/hda" and upon reboot I get "welcome to GRUB" and "rescue mode". It seems to me that GRUB cannot load the normal.mod module nor find the grub.cfg file. I type "set" and find :- prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub root=hd0,1 Should not these say hd1 and not hd0? If I then manually set them to hd1,1 I can then "insmod normal" and then enter "normal" and my menu appears and I can boot linux. Reading the source (a dangerous thing) I see that grub seems to start by prepending the BIOS "boot" device name to the prefix string, which was previously just "/boot/grub". Surely it should prepend the setting of the "root" device? I have tried running grub-setup by hand, specifying the root-device as (hd1,1) but this didn't make any difference: indeed, output from the verbose option suggests it guessed "hdb1" was my root device anyway. Thanks, Steve Platt ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
