On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:53, Ben Sparks wrote: > Voicu Liviu wrote: > |On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:38, Ben Sparks wrote: > |>I know the bootloader question has been beat to death and I have looked > |>every where that I know of to find an answer, but no dice...yet. > |>Anyway, I'm stuck using a boot disk to load gentoo. First off gentoo > |>is installed on hdb with hdb1 being /boot, hdb5 / , hdb6 /swap, & hdb7 > |>/home. Here is my grub.conf file: > |> > |>default 0 > |>timeout 30 > |>splashimage=(hd1,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > |> > |>title=Gentoo > |>root (hd1,0) > |>kernel (hd1,0) /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb5 > |> > |>and when I ran "grub" I typed > |> > |>root (hd1,0) > |> > |>setup (hd1,0) > | > |SHOULD BE "setup (hd0)" > | > |>I thought this was right....? no. I don't get a cool splash screen only > |>a plain grub boot screen that gives an error when trying to boot, so I > |>revert to using my trusty boot disk :) Does anyone have a suggestion > |>for my delimma? Also, one extra note, when I get to the grub boot scren > |>(the one that gives errors) it says it's booting from a FAT formatted > |>drive?...huh, wha...I know I formated /boot with ext2. I'm just > |>baffeled. Thanks > | > |-- > |[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > If I used "setup (hd0)" that would put it on hda and over write my > windows MBR and as tempting as that sounds I'm not up for a windows
I see now you did not read the grub section from gentoo docs. enter setup (hd0) and make 1 more entry for windows: title=winblows root (hdx,y) chainloader +1 Go to gentoo docs and see if this is correct. ( this will alow you to load win with grub ) Bye > reinstall. I just use the NT bootloader to point to my gentoo > install. I use dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=linux.bin bs=512 count=1 and > put that file in c:\ ,edit my boot.ini file and presto chango > I see grub. Then grub gives me all kinds of nasty messages. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
