Re: grub / redhat 7.1

[Jeff Sheinberg]

Ralf Kuebler writes:
 > hello everybody,
 > 
 > i tried to install the grub bootmanager to a testmachine in our
 > environment and the following is my problem:
 > 
 > - PIII Fujitsu Siemens
 > - only ext2 filesystems on yhe whole disk.
 > - I installed the tar file " grub-0.90.tar.gz " with tar xvf
 > grub-0.90.tar after i gunzipped it.
 > - i have the /boot/grub directotry with the 4 files device.map,
 > e2fs_stage1_5, stage1, stage2
 > - i created a bootdisk which brought me directly on that "grub-shell"
                                                             ^^^^^^^^^^

Please, "grub shell" means "/sbin/grub" on this list.  So, you
booted the grub boot floppy [diskette], and found yourself at the
"grub command line".

 > - my lilo.conf file has the following entries:
 > 
 >     boot = /dev/hda
 >     map= /boot/map
 >     install=/boot/boot.p
 >     message=/boot/message
 >     linear
 >     default=linux
 > 
 >     image=/boot/vmlinuz2-2.4.2-2
 >     label=linux
 >     read-only
 >     root=/dev/hda5
 > 
 > - after i rebooted the machine with the grub on it i tried
                                                      ^^^^^^^

It seems you just forgot this command, it is needed prior to the
"kernel..." command,

    root (hd0,4)

 > 
 > grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz2-2.4.2-2 root=/dev/hda5
                ^

because "/" means "root", you haven't told grub what the root
partition is.

 > 
 > which gave me the knowm error 17
 > "Cannot mount selected partition"
 > 
 > in the grub-info-3 i  read that this is a known bug. when will it be
 > fixed, because i read an article which says grub is possible booting
 > ext2 fs systems
 > 
 > greetings from switzerland
 > 
 > ralf kuebler
 > 
 > D-MATH / Sysop
 > 
 > http://www.math.ethz.ch/~rkuebler
 > 
 > 
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