GRUB installed nicely when installing the OS, but upon boot I got "GRUB" printed to the screen and nothing else. After dorking around with various boot-rescue attempts I got to a prompt and was able to reinstall GRUB to /dev/hda. Instead of "GRUB", now I got "GRUB Read Error" and nothing else. That could have been because I mounted /dev/hda1 as /mnt on the rescue-boot and then told grub-installer to use it as the root. I tried also using the force-lba option, without success.
I just had SCO UL Beta3 installed on this box (although it had some issues). But this time I got picky on the partitioning, and chose to use LVM. / is /dev/hda1 (reiserfs) /opt is /dev/system/opt /usr is /dev/system/usr /var is /dev/system/var I couldn't get the LVM partitions to mount while running on the rescue option of the SCO CD. I am not familiar with LVM as this is my first time really working with it. Could LVM be causing any issues with GRUB loading? Did GRUB change between BETA3 and SCO Linux 4 release? Why doesn't this work? Eventually I created an ugly lilo.conf file and installed LILO which worked. I can boot now and the box is up. But I am a GRUB fan and wish to understand what was breaking. While booted to the rescue option on the SCO CD I did the following to install GRUB: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/ grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/hda umount /mnt <reboot> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/ grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ --force-lba /dev/hda umount /mnt <reboot> I also tried chroot-ing to /mnt/ but couldn't get GRUB tools since they live on /usr and I couldn't get LVM partitions mounted.... Did I have to load lvm-mod or something? Thanks, Matt ps. I have hwinfo information but it's too long to include _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
