Re: "grub" command works, but GRUB boot loader hangs

[Wilhelm Wienemann]

Hello Ben!

On Sat, 04 Aug 2001, Ben Liblit wrote:

> I am trying to use GRUB 0.90 on a Linux/Windows machine.  My GRUB
> build is courtesy of Red Hat's "grub-0.90-7.i386.rpm", which is part
> of their recently announced beta release.
> 
> The "grub" command, run under Linux, works just fine.  It correctly
> identifies my hard drives and their respective partitions.  However,
> using GRUB as a boot loader does not work.  It misidentifies my hard
> drives and hangs on any nontrivial attempt to access them.  LILO, by
> contrast, works just fine.
 
[...]

> As I said, the "grub" command run under Linux identifies everything
> correctly.  It looks like I would use (hd1,0) and (hd1,2) to boot
> Windows and Linux, respectively.
> 
> However, I decided to try out a boot floppy first.  I built the floppy
> disk using "cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0" and booted it.  

AFAIK you can use "grub-install '(fd0)'" instead. 

> Now things start to fall apart.

Maybe you have to make a link in /boot like the description in
FAQ 11 (cd /boot && ln -s . boot).

bye - Wilhelm

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