Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
To the attention of Andy and Mac (with many thanks for having considered my problem). This is how the things go. I installed LFS-6.8 on a notebook HP Pavilion dv6215ea with i386 dual core CPU. My situation at the moment is the following: (1) 500 GB HD partitioned so to have Windows 7 (reserved) i

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:46:46 -0500 > Mike McCarty wrote: >> Andrew Benton wrote: >>> You don't need to reinstall grub. If it's working Ok and you can boot >>> into LFS then just edit grub.cfg to make an entry for windows, >>> something like this: >>> >>> menuentry "Windows"

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:46:46 -0500 Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > You don't need to reinstall grub. If it's working Ok and you can boot > > into LFS then just edit grub.cfg to make an entry for windows, > > something like this: > > > > menuentry "Windows" { > >set root=(hd0,1)

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Benton wrote: Giorgio wrote: [...] >> What to do? Could you suggest where I mistook? What to do now: remove >> (but how?) Grub and reinstall it? GRUB is not something to "remove". If one no longer wants GRUB, then one simply overwrites it with something else. > You don't need to reinst

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > Hi all, > I'm very happy because I just finished to install LFS-6.8 easily > following the very precise Book, with only a problem resolved thanks to > the help by Andrew Benton. Congratulations! I don't know enough about GRUB to help you with your problem getting to mul

Re: lfs system

2011-08-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Frederick Muriithi wrote: > I just finished building my lfs 6.8 system, and registered as a new > lfs user. Just follow the rules for posting and you'll be surprised Congratulations! Mac -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Gove

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:52:44 +0200 Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > All is OK, but when I've booted the first time using Grub, I found only > "Linux 2.6.37-lfs-6.8" and "its recovery mode". I tried to make > recognizable the presence of Windows 7, but I got no success. > When I control the structure of

Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
Hi all, I'm very happy because I just finished to install LFS-6.8 easily following the very precise Book, with only a problem resolved thanks to the help by Andrew Benton. My host was Ubuntu 11.4 with Pentium Dual Core. All is OK, but when I've booted the first time using Grub, I found only "Linux

Re: lfs system

2011-08-16 Thread Frederick Muriithi
I just finished building my lfs 6.8 system, and registered as a new lfs user. Just follow the rules for posting and you'll be surprised how helpful the people on lfs-support can be. Hang in there; just don't give up. It's worth the 'pain' -- Frederick M. Muriithi -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m