OK - I tried your suggestion. Didn't work neither - no menu appeared. Running configfile /grub/grub.conf from within grub displayed the menu but the windows boot never did anything no matter how I fiddled. /etc/grub.conf and menu.lst are symlinks to /boot/grub/grub.conf in RH9. fdisk /mbr ... :( So, I've decided to cut my losses and reformat/repartition all hard drives as I'm just going round in circles. I'll also take the opportunity to upgrade RH9 -> Fedora - so, can anyone supply me with the disks? Hopefully, someone at the university so I can pick them up on Monday. If so, let me know your room and how many CDs I need to replace. Thanks for all the advice. Mark. On 31 Jul 2004 at 4:15, Jason Drake wrote:
please disregard most of the previous post, i was in a hurry and looking back on it it wasnt particularly well thought out although in my experience windows does like to be in the first partition
Ok all going well i think this will work install grub to mbr of hdd1:
# grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda
grub.conf in /boot/grub/ should look something like this:
# # Sample boot menu configuration file #
# Boot automatically after 20 sec. timeout 20
# By default, boot the 1st entry. default 0
# Fallback to the first entry. fallback 1
title Windows 2000 rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1
# For booting Linux title Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hdb3
Make sure that its the copy in /boot/grub/ that you are looking at as this is the one grub is actually using. I believe redhat has a grub.conf in /etc/ that its scripts use and I'm not sure how that gets modified and copied into /boot/grub/
If you get the grub prompt up rather than the menu chances are that the config file should be named menu.1st rather than grub.conf, this is what debian uses. If you get to the prompt it means it has booted the stage 2 loader which is in /boot/grub so the problem is the config file is not where/what grub thinks it should be ie grub is looking for another name or is looking somewhere else for it
hope this helps Jason
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