[NBLUG/talk] Newbie and grub>

[Jennifer Tracy]

William,

I followed the instructions in the RedHat installation guide and loaded 
Windows XP first.

Then I did the RH 9 install using the GUI and I do not remember seeing 
anything about GRUB and the KERNEL at the end.

I tried your suggestions below and they didn't work and I used every number 
from 0 to 6 for
/dev/hda%d

I am told that it cannot mount the drive.

So I am about ready to redo the installation of Linux and tell it to use 
LILO.

Jenn


>From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <support at obsidian-studios.com>
>Reply-To: talk at nblug.org
>To: nblug <talk at nblug.org>
>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Newbie and grub>
>Date: 25 May 2003 15:09:33 -0400
>
>Jennifer,
>
>On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 01:19, Jennifer Tracy wrote:
> >
> > At the end of the install I had the system reboot and now I an in grub> 
>land
> > and NOT happy about it.
>
>It's just growing pains.
>
> > I managed to get it to boot into Windows with the chainloader, but I 
>cannot
> > figure out how to get my kernel loaded so that I can boot into linux.
>
>What order did you install the OS? Was Grub and a kernel not configured
>after install of RH 9?
>
> > I have tried the following:
> >
> > grub> kernel /vmlinux-2.4.20-8 (and variations there of)
> >
> > and I get the following error:
> >
> > Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
>
>Here is what you want
>
>root (hd0,0)
>
>Where HD0,0 is the first drive, and first partition on that drive.
>
>Then
>
>kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-13 ro root=/dev/hda6
>
>Where /dev/hda6 is my root / partition.
>
>If you need a initial ram disk image
>
>Then
>
>initrd /initrd-2.4.20-13.img
>
>So all together they would be
>
>root (hd0,0)
>kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-13 ro root=/dev/hda6
>initrd /initrd-2.4.20-13.img
>
>Most of the time the last line is not needed.
>
>Let me know if you have any questions with regard to the config file,
>grub.conf.
>
>--
>Sincerely,
>William L. Thomson Jr.
>Support Group
>Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
>3548 Jamestown Ln.
>Jacksonville, FL 32223
>Phone/Fax  904.260.2445
>http://www.obsidian-studios.com
>
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