Re: help!

[Ning Ma]

Now I think I know what's happening.  My BIOS has a problem of recognizing
a hard disk over 8GB.  So I have a program called "EZ-BIOS" installed at
MBR on my hard disk.  GRUB seems to destroy that extra EZ-BIOS information
completely and left the hard disk a corrupted partition table.  
(LILO, however, does a smarter job).   Do you have any idea of how to
remedy this? 

Thanks.

Ning

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> On Oct 22, Ning Ma wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry for my ignorance.  I just install Linux with GRUB as bootloader, and
> > unfortunately, my computer does not boot from hard disk any more.  It
> > can boot from floppy disk, but I could not boot into my Window 98 system.
> 
> Lets guess: When you boot from the hard disk only the "grub>" prompt
> appears, right?
> 
> This means that grub is loaded, but can't find its menu (menu.lst).
> So it asks you to enter command by hands.  Try entering at the grub> prompt:
> 
>   configfile /grub/menu.lst
> 
> If I'm right you should get your menu,  provided that you have a
> menu.lst at all, see the grub tutorial...
> 
> 
> > The following is my configuration:
> > 
> > hda1  Win98 vfat 
> > hda2  Linux /boot ext2
> 
> Your menu.lst is probably at /grub/menu.lst in your boot partition,
> but grub searches in /boot/grub/menu.lst.  After booting linux from
> disk, you should put a symlink in your boot directory:  
>   cd /boot
>   ln -s . boot
> 
>   Jochen
> 

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