Re: A new approach to GRUB problem; Was: Re: [Hampshire]Cont…

Thanks for the effort, John - but no, it doesn't directly. Grub has found and
is using all the Linux kernels and memtest (both versions). It is Windows
that is causing a problem.

But I hadn't thought of using Knoppix Hacks - stupid of me. :-( I'll do so
tomorrow.

So thanks for that reminder! :-)

Lisi

On Saturday 17 Feb 2007 22:46, john eayrs wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 19:14 +0000, hantslug@??? wrote:
> > > Is there anyone on this list (or are there any people on this liost)
> > > who is/are successfully dual booting Linux and Windows using GRUB? If
> > > so,
>
> could
>
> > > he/she/they post his/her/their menu.lst, grub.conf, other file with the
>
> same
>
> > > function for me to look at? From where I am now, looking at what
>
> succeeds
>
> > > might give me more clues than continued failure.
>
> I would suggest getting a copy of the knoppix disk. This has some useful
> routines on it which make failed Grub installation on various linuxes easy.
>
> Using knoppix I was able to install 3 operating systems (SUSE, knoppix, XP)
> on 2 laptops and repair Grub on a machine with 2 hard disks booting from a
> SCSI drive.
>
> Use the "update-grub" tool. This tool scans the /boot partition for usable
> kernals and automatically creates a menu.lst file based on what it finds.
>
> example taken from the book "knoppix hacks"
> assuming root partition is mounted at /mnt/hda1 you would run
> $ cd /mnt/hda1
> $ sudo mkdir boot/grub
> $ sudo cp /sbin/update-grub ./
> $sudo chroot /mnt/hda1 /update-grub
>
> The final command prompts you to create a menu.lst file - you answer yes to
> this
> It then scans the first hard drive and adds new entries for all the kernals
> it finds
>
> The first time update-grub is run, it might not detect the correct root
> device to use.
>
> If your root partition is not at /dev/hda1 but perhaps at /dev/hda5, you
> must edit the boot/grub/menu.lst file that was created and find the
> following commented line:
> # groot=(hd0,0)
>
> replace (hd0, 0) with the correct root device for your Linux system. For
> example, if your root Linux partition is /dev/hda5, change the line to
>
> # groot=(hd0, 4)
> Notice that grub counts partitions from zero instead of one. Rerun
> update-grub to update menu.lst with the correct values:
>
> $ cd /mnt/hda5
> $ sudo chroot /mnt/hda5 /update-grub
>
> Once the program has finished.......you must tell the grub-install program
> to use /mnt/hda1 as your root directory by typing the following command
>
> $ sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hda1 /dev/hda
>
> I hope the above gives a useful method for handling grub installation.
>
> I copied this out of the knoppix hacks and you may need to play a little.
> I used the instructions as the reference for putting 3 operating systems on
> a laptop.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> John Eayrs