[NBLUG/talk] grub menu will not load

[Ryan Culley]

Hello Troy,
please see my answers below.

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:41:33 -0800, Troy Arnold <troy at zenux.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:22:05PM -0800, Ryan Culley wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas what I could try to get the grub menu back
> > up?  And what hosed it up?
> 
> some random ideas:
> 
> Make sure /boot/grub/device.map is correct.
> 
> For instance, on my desktop it is:
> (hd0)   /dev/sda
> 
> You'd most likely need:
> (hd0)   /dev/hda

I have (hd0) /dev/hda.

> 
> Is there perhaps a toshiba hibernation partition in the mix ?

Not sure what that is but here is output of mount:

root at ttyp0[knoppix]# mount
/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/scd0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=816812k)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666)
automount(pid480) on /mnt/auto type autofs
(rw,fd=4,pgrp=480,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/hda3 on /mnt/hda3 type ext3 (ro,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type ntfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000)

> > Would it help if I posted the contents of grub's menu.1st file?
> 
> Posting your 'menu.lst' couldn't hurt.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
## ## End Default Options ##

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.8.1-3-386 
root		(hd0,2)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-386
savedefault
boot

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.8.1-3-386 (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,2)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-386
savedefault
boot

title		Memory test
root		(hd0,2)
kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title		Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title		Windows NT/2000/XP
root		(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

> 
> p.s. that's an 'ell' in 'lst' not a one, as in menu.list
> (I thought it was a one for a long time too ;-)

Thanks :)
Ryan 


> Hmm, could that be the problem ?
> 
> -troy
> 
>