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Voicu Liviu wrote:
|On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:53, Ben Sparks wrote:
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|>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
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|>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
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|I see now you did not read the grub section from gentoo docs.
|enter setup (hd0)
|and make 1 more entry for windows:
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|title=winblows
|root (hdx,y)
|chainloader +1
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|Go to gentoo docs and see if this is correct.
|( this will alow you to load win with grub )
|Bye
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|>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.
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I did read the docs, I just opted to use NT's boot loader because I re-install windows fairly often and don't want to deal with setting up grub each time I do this. I prefer not to use the windows option in grub. This is why I have it installed on the first partition on hdb.
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