Hi all,
I recently upgraded hardware (m'board, CPU, video, RAM etc.) on the
system that I've been using dual/boot/GRUB (W2K and, recently RH9)
for the last 2 years.
Knowing I would have to reinstall the OSs, I installed W2K first then
RH9.
Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced GRUB and the system simply
goes straight to the W2K boot up.
With RH9 installations, I've never been able to make a floppy at the end
of the install process (seems to be either a RH9 'feature' or the kernel
is too large for the floppy) but have always made the boot floppy from
within linux. So, I'm unable to boot linux from this imaginary floppy. My
previous RH9 boot floppy clearly has the wrong kernel for the new
hardware and I can't load that (both boot floppies I have).
I've lost count of the number of times I've reinstalled RH9 in the last few
days or chosen the upgrade option from the CD each time trying some
different combination of boot loader (including trying to go back to
LILO). I've even tried sticking GRUB and LILO on the MBR rather than
the boot partition.
I have Tom's rtboot and a GRUB floppy both of which run. From these,
including the RH9/boot CD/linux rescue option, I've tried grub-install
options and grub commandline (root (hd1,0); setup (hd1)) options -
each time I get an installed successfully message but each boot, up
comes Windows.
I have two HDs:
W2K (inc. linux swap) on hda
LINUX:
/dev/hdb3 /
/dev/hdb1 /boot
I know most HOWTOs state that the linux boot should be on the same
hard drive as the windows OS but these are the partitions I've been
successfully dual-booting from with GRUB for the past 2 years.
I have no more hair left to tear out - please help.
Mark.
