[NBLUG/talk] Newbie and grub>

[Jennifer Tracy]

William,

Well I fought with it all weekend.  What a way to spend a holiday, eh?

Anyway,  my system ( except for the brand new 20GB harddrive ) is built from 
spare parts we have lying around from clients old computers.  Turns out that 
the floppy controller on my motherboard doesn't work. Made it a bit 
difficult to get any floppy boot disk working. :-)

Found a couple of threads else where about grub and having an NTFS partition 
as part of the MBR.

Ended up wiping the drive entirely.  Making a little FAT16 partition at the 
beginning (500MB).  Then installing Linux with LILO as the boot loader and 
hey I just logged off my first session with linux.  Woo Hoo!

I will install Windows XP on it tomorrow and hope I don't mess the whole 
thing up again. :-)

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 18:26:48 -0400
>
>On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 17:43, Jennifer Tracy wrote:
> > 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.
>
>You should have seen that toward the beginning. What type of install did
>you do, and did you partition the drive yourself?
>
> > I tried your suggestions below and they didn't work and I used every 
>number
> > from 0 to 6 for
> > /dev/hda%d
>
>Depending on if the partition is an extended or primary, you may have
>not gone high enough.
>
>You might want to go up to say /dev/hda9
>
>so make sure and try /dev/hda0-9 although it could be higher.
>
>How did you partition your system?
>
>Also the /dev/hda0-9 thing directly corresponds to the first command of
>root (hd0,0)
>
>You might need (hd1,0) or (hd0,1)
>
>Typically I will install RedHat first, partition things the way I want
>them to and then install Windows. Of course widows will wipe out grub,
>for which I re-install grub using a floppy.
>
>I bet windows is on (hd0,0) and your partition is (hd0,1)
>
>Now primary partitions, where your kernel will reside are numbered
>
>1-4
>
>Anything in the extended range will be
>5 on up.
>
>So you might need to do
>root (hd0,2)
>
>Keep in mind when dealing with the command above, you need to subtract 1
>from the primary partion #. So if the kernel is one the 4 primary
>partition on the first drive it would be
>
>root (hd0,3)
>
>Play around and let me know how it goes.
>
> > 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.
>
>That's allot of work for a small problem. You could try to reinstall
>grub, or install lilo off a floppy. Both would be better than
>reinstalling everything.
>
>Although I think if you knew a little more about your partitions and
>etc, we could get you going without having to reinstall or install
>anything.
>
>However some more trial and error on your part will eventually reveal a
>working combination.
>
>--
>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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