Hi, > > I have a old PC that was working fine with lilo before I reinstall my > > linux from scratch (with a Debian Woody 3.0 r0). I installed grub with > > dselect. > > > > First, I try to boot with a grub disk (that I build with stage one and > > two following the instruction in the info pages). I can boot my window > > partition fine, I can also find file on it, but when I type > > debian has a 'grub-floppy' command to make a grub boot disk.
I also try 'grub-floppy', both floppy bahave identicaly. > > root (hd0,1) > > > > I got a error 17. (which I think is normal, I stage 1.5 is not present > > and it's a ext2fs partition). I boot in linux with the debian rescue > > disk, copy the required file in /boot/gnut/ (I attach the listing of the > > why is it gnut, it should be grub. Of course it's grub, it's only a typo when I was writing the email. > > directory in ll.txt), I wrote a little menu.lst (also atteched) and I > > run grub. I issue the following command : > > > > root (hd0,1) > > setup (hd0) > > try using 'grub-install' to install grub. boot linux using your rescue > disc. then run 'grub-install /dev/hda'. I did, I had exactly the same error when I reboot. The generated device.map is ok. > grub-install will copy the needed files for you and create the > device.map file. > > also maybe try a newer version of grub if you still have no success. > I can send you the latest from sid. built for woody. > > > grub (GNU GRUB 0.91) I rerun setup command in the grub shell and note which command it issue : embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0) 16 sector atre embedded install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst Thanks for your quick answer. If you can send me the lastest build of grub, I'll give it a try. Also, if you wish me to run some command in debug mode and send you the output, I'll be please to do so. -- Guillaume Cot� [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tzone.org/~gcote
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