Re: [gentoo-user] Whats wrong with my grub.conf

[Ian K <omega_2_1@yahoo.ca>]

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Heinz Sporn wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Whenever someone has Grub problems it'd be a good idea to not only post
>grub.conf but more importantly infos about the disk layouts (and fstab
>to round it up).
>
>  
>
OK, well I have a dual boot with Windows happening here as you
probably can tell. Its all on the one hard drive.

Partition 1 (grub 0)(hda1) = Windows XP (NTFS)
Partition 2 (grub 1)(hda2) = Gentoo /boot (reiserfs)
Partition 3 (grub 2)(hda3) = Linux Swap
Partition 4 (grub 3)(hda4) = Gentoo / (Including /home) (reiserfs)

>In your case there seems to be a couple of things to verify.
>
>I assume that Grub didn't come up with its initial dialog? 
>
Yup, it showed nothing.

>That usually
>means that it couldn't find /boot/grub/grub.conf using it's stage
>drivers in /boot/grub.
>  
>
Alright, so would I just 'install' it again? This is not an initial
install of grub, how could it lose its configuration file?

>With root (hd0,1) you force Grub to load an OS from the second partition
>of your first physical disk. Does /dev/hda4 reflect this situation?
>
>So in short: you have to tell Grub where to find /boot/grub/grub.conf
>  
>
Well, as long as you can tell me how Im OK.

>But for detailed forensics I'd need more intel.
>
>Regards
>
>spox
>  
>
Thanks very much!!
Ian

>Am Samstag, den 06.08.2005, 01:32 -0400 schrieb Ian K:
>  
>
>>Hi there,
>>I am getting an "Error 15"
>>when grub loads. I booted in with a Gentoo Live CD
>>and got the file, and am including it. I think the
>>error 15 code is a syntax error, right? Here is
>>the file. Let me know if you see a problem.
>>Ian
>>PS> Please note I like to make things look good,
>>explaining the ..::..'s
>>
>>---------grub.conf---------
>>default 2
>>timeout 10
>>splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>
>>
>>
>>title=.....::::: GentooLinux2.6.11-gentoo-r11
>>:::::.....
>>root (hd0,1)
>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 root=/dev/hda4
>>
>>
>>
>>title=.....:::::Gentoo
>>Linux2.6.11-gen-r11-IR2:::::.....
>>root (hd0,1)
>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-r11-IR2 root=/dev/hda4 
>>
>>
>>title=.....:::::Gentoo
>>Linux2.6.11-gen-r11-IR3:::::.....
>>root (hd0,1)
>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11-IR3 root=/dev/hda4
>>
>>
>>title=.....:::::Gentoo Linux
>>2.6.13-rc1-mm1-R2:::::.....
>>root (hd0,1)
>>kernel /K2.6.13-rc1-mm1-R2 root=/dev/hda4
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>title=.....:::::          Windows XP         
>>:::::.....
>>rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>makeactive
>>chainloader +1
>>
>>
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