skippi wrote:
Howdy. I am trying to install 9.1 on a brand new MoBo. It's a Intel D865GBF. Info is here: http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bf/
The install process seems to go just fine, until the very end. When I reboot, I get my Win98 start up menu. GRUB is not installing. On top of that, I made 3 floppies to do an install from the hard drive. None of them will boot. I get kernel panics. I made 2 boot disk during the install, nieither of them will boot. I tried booting from the CD and executing 'rescue' however it mounts my mdk 7.2 file system on hdb6. The 9.1 is on hdb7. So that is no good. Assuming that 9.1 is actually installed... how can I get to the file system to try installing GRUB?
Also, can someone plase post a GRUB /boot/grub/menu.lst entry to boot a 9.1 system so I know what it should look like? That would be very helpful. Thanks much. Adrian
What you can do is boot the rescue and choose command line. From there, you can mount the install you wish by hand. [1]
mkdir /mnt/disk mount /dev/hdb7 /mnt/disk chroot /mnt/disk
You should now get a prompt from / of your install. If you have other partitions you need to mount, do so, for example:
mount /usr
Try to see if the installer created /boot/grub/menu.lst for you
ls /boot less /boot/grub/menu.lst
If the menu is there, and looks OK, and you have /boot/grub/install.sh, all that might need doing is to run the install script:
sh /boot/grub/install.sh
You can back out of the chroot when you are done:
umount /usr (if necessary) exit umount /mnt/disk ctrl-alt-del to reboot
Here is part of my grub but the installer might make kernel commands for your board that are different from mine. You could also look at /etc/lilo.conf, if you don't have menu.lst, for some reason. The commands might have been put there in the append="" statement.
timeout 7 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd3,7)/boot/grub/messages keytable (hd3,7)/boot/us.klt default 9
title linux
kernel (hd3,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdg8 devfs=mount noapic hdc=ide-scsi vga=788
initrd (hd3,7)/boot/initrd.img
title linux-nonfb kernel (hd3,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdg8 devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi initrd (hd3,7)/boot/initrd.img
title failsafe
kernel (hd3,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdg8 failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi
initrd (hd3,7)/boot/initrd.img
title windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1
I just remembered there is also an option to reinstall the bootloader after typing F1. The thing with the bootfloppies is, probably, because the kernel has become too big/there is not enough room for the initrd.img. That has been a problem for a lot of people.
Rolf
[1] http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/index.html#er
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