Congratulations Michael, I am glad you got around this one. Cheers Szemir On May 28, 2005 21:05, Michael Walters wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Quoting Nick W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>A guess, but is there a grub.conf file anywhere in the /boot directory of > >> the > >> > >>install? Maybe it's not reading menu.lst. > > > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >Hello Nick, > > > >You may be on to something. The grub directory contains menu.lst and a few > > other files, and there is a boot directory, but the boot directory seems > > to be empty. > > > >I hope this helps. > > > >Michael > > Hello Nick, > > Whatever I did wrong in my installation will forever remain a mystery, > because my brother came over to help me and he successfully installed > libranet 3.0. The only thing I can say is that I made some wrong > choices, but Mel made all the right choices and libranet 3.0 is up and > running. > > I am sending this message from Thunderbird mail client in libranet 3.0 > debian distribution. > > It is still a learning curve to configure Thunderbird. I want to send > all my messages as plain text with no HTML, but so far have not figured > out how to do that. So please forgive me for the unwanted HTML untill I > figure out how to deselect HTML. > > > Regards, > > Michael > > >__________________________________________________________________________ > > > >>On Monday 23 May 2005 21:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>Hello Shawn and all, > >>> > >>>I separately mounted hda1, hda2, hda3, hdb1, hab2, hdb3, hdb4, hdc1, > >>> hdc2 and got the following results: > >>> > >>>Each of the mounted partitions were the correct size, and hda3 would not > >>>mount because it looked like swap, which it was. Ditto with hdb4 and > >>> hdc2. > >>> > >>>I then checked the menu.lst file and regular kernel boot was from hd0,1 > >>>which is what it should have been, and that the windows which was fat32 > >> > >>was > >> > >>>on hd1,0 which corresponds to hdb1 which is what it should have been. > >>> > >>>So it seems that grub should point to the correct hard drives in the > >>>menu.lst file. > >>> > >>>I did all that by doing separately commands like mount /dev/hda1 > >> > >>/mnt/hda1. > >> > >>>I umounted every file system after getting the information I wanted. > >>> > >>>Then I clicked on hda2 which automounted hda2 and navigated with > >>> konqueror to menu.lst and then viewed menu.lst to see that grub was > >>> indeed pointing to the correct hard drives. > >>> > >>> > >>>I hope this narrows down the possiblities causing grub to fail and give > >>> an error 17 message. > >>> > >>>Regards, > >>> > >>>Michael Walters > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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