On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Word Wizard <[email protected]> wrote:
> .... > It gets worse. I tried booting from the distro DVD (Intrepid) and > using grub to 'find /boot/grub/stage1'. > > grub finds it (hd0,5). That's the correct location. I use the sudo su, > then the root (hd0,5) command. No error messages. I use the setup (hd0) > command and the output says it found the /boot/grub/stage1 file and is > writing (hd0)/boot/grub/menu/.lst. > > BUT... It does not write (hd0)/boot/grub/menu/.lst. Anywhere. I check > the root drive and the old /boot/grub/menu/.lst is still there. Even if > I rename it, no new menu.lst appears . > > > What am I doing wrong? Or is Linux still not ready for prime time and > only for hackers? > > Do you have a separate boot partition? Maybe (hd0,1) or (hd0,2) etc is your boot partition and the menu.lst you need to be editing is in one of those partitions. It can happen that their are actual grub files in hd(0,5), but that those are not the ones pointed to by the grub MBR. The one thing your tar file did not back up is the MBR. To make the backup complete you should dd if=/dev/hda of=MasterBoootRecordBackup bs=512 count=1 Another possibility is that booting from the DVD changes the drive order, and when you boot again without the DVD, the drive has changed name. This is the problem the UUID stuff is supposed to fix. So you can have ugly drive specifications, or drive specifications that change from under your feet. This is not really a linux problem per se, but a problem with the BIOS. Bill Barry > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
