[PlanetCCRMA] Grub help

[David Slimp]

Yup... that was my original suggestion.
He rejected doing that earlier today.  Not clear if he's since
changed his mind.  :)

David



On 2/25/06, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> wrote:
> On Saturday 25 February 2006 21:08, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 11:21 -0800, Oded Ben-Tal wrote:
> > > > (to do that you will have to boot from the fist cd with "linux rescue"
> > > > and then chroot to the mount point of your install).
> > > >
> > > > I vaguely remember a similar problem with my laptop a long time ago. I
> > > > think I did a grub-install --force-lba ("man grub-install") to get
> > > > around the problem.
> > >
> > > I ran grub-install. It doesn't, it never finished to return to the rescue
> > > shell (at least not after 3 minutes). so I halted it and now when i boot
> > > the computer I get a screen full of 'grub's ?!
> > >
> > > any idea what can i do now?
> > > I hope i won't have to install fc from scratch...
> >
> > Hopefully not. You don't say what option you used for grub-install. I
> > would try reinstalling with just plain "grub-install" if you used
> > --force-lba before. What messages does grub-install print? Exactly what
> > do you see on the screen when you try to boot?
> >
> > -- Fernando
>
> Hi Fernando. I know on my Gentoo install using grub-install, that I had to
> define the device that Grub was going to be installed on. I see on Oded's
> grub.conf that he appears to have a Windows install as well as FC3. May I
> suggest.
> grub-install /dev/hda.
>
> Sorry if I'm interfering here. Nigel.
> >
> > > (before doint grub-install i tested the invisible menu option just for
> > > fun, and using the arrows didn't bring up the kernel options. In any case
> > > if this was the problem it would boot to the default rather than get
> > > stuck).