I'm in deeper than I thought but I thank everybody for responding. As several of you pointed out - my menu.ls is not correct for what I explained as my configuration...although the first option does boot.
With everybody's insistence that my config was wrong, and my knowledge that if there's a way to screw something up, I'll do it, I remembered that when I first installed Grub, /boot was not a separate partition: my LFS build was one partition on a second drive (/dev/hdb3) - I had left space for /boot and swap on that drive but in the interest of keeping things simple, didn't mount /dev/hdb1 - /boot was just a directory under /. Later, I copied everything from (/dev/hdb3)/boot to /dev/hdb1 and eventually mounted /dev/hdb1 at /boot....forgetting there is a populated /boot directory already in existence So, as per my menu.lst, I've apparently been loading the kernel at (/dev/hda3 - now that what was hdb is the primary drive) /boot at boot time rather than that on /dev/hda1. Thus one entry works while the other two don't becuase they are truly where they should be on /dev/hda1...
..are we all confused? I'll backtrack my steps and try to figure out how to get out of what I've created - any floppy I create to boot from fails to boot. I tried running grub to rebuild the mbr with the correct settings - it says it's finished but within 60 seconds, the machine locks up - I have to cycle the power and nothing appears to have changed - I'm still booting off of the image on /dev/hda3
What fun :)
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote:
Remove the '/boot' as was pointed out earlier in this thread.
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