hi,
I've re-installed the /boot partition mke2fs + kernel + grub and now it
works!!
I've got 2 hard drives one scsi and one ata100 and i found out one
curious thing. when I'm installing grub hd0 is my ata100 drive and when
boots hd0 is the scsi drive :-S
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 15:10, Collins wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 23:09, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:01:24 +0000, Helder Rossa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I've installed grub and 3 partitions boot, swap and root in my SCSI hard
> > >drive. but when it boots grub shows the command line instead of a menu.
> > >when i write "configfile (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf" it shows me the menu.
> > >how can I configure grub show by default the menu??
> > >
> > >other thing is when I boot it gives me a Kernel panic saying that can't
> > >find root /dev/sda3...
> >
> > You need to name your config file /boot/grub/menu.1st (or something). I'm
> > not sure if it is menu.lst or menu.1st. If you only have grub.conf you get
> > commandline.
>
> Not quite, grub will work with either a grub.conf or the older menu.lst file
> for configuration. Please post the contents of your configuration, if the
> following suggestion doesn't help
>
> One thought, maybe your grub didn't get installed properly. Try this
>
> 1. enter 'grub'
> 2. enter 'root (hd0,0) presumes your /boot is on hda1 (otherwise change)
> 3. enter 'setup (hd0)'
> 4. reboot
>
> If you are not using hda1, but rather hdb1, etc., change the root line to read
> ('root (hd1,0)' etc.).
>
> This will reset the internal pointer that grub uses to find the partition
> where grub.conf (or menu.lst) and the other grub files live.
>
> HTH.
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