How about posting what is in your menu.lst - maybe its not booting from the
proper kernel image ??
philomena
At 10:38 PM 4/26/01 -0400, Jay DeKing wrote:
>OK, so I logged in as root, ran /boot/grub/install.sh (after making sure
>that menu.lst was correct) - I still get stage1 Read Error.
>
>What am I missing here? GRUB ran fine when I installed Mandrake 7.2,
>then I had a Win98 disaster and had to completely format hda1. Linux is
>on hdb. I should think that there would be a way to get GRUB working
>again without reinstalling Mandrake.
>
>Here is how my drives are set up:
> hda is Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives;
> hdb is 40gigs, Mandrake 7.2, split up into /, /home, /usr, /var, and
>swap;
> hde is also Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives.
>
>100 gigs of space and I'm booting off a floppy. Sheesh.
>
>Jay
>
>philomena wrote:
> >
> > the file is actually in /boot/grub, and is called install.sh - just run it
> > from the command line and grub will be installed. The grub info grub uses
> > is in the file menu.lst - take a look at that and make sure it points to
> > the proper partitions.
> >
> > cheers,
> > philomena
> >
>
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>
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