grub works, but not automatically (FIXED!!)

wfp · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Install went well on a dual processor Xeon (Dell 530). I reconfigured the kernel and it works. Grub was installed and it almost works.

Almost means that I get the command line instead of the menu I set up in the grub.conf. I can boot the system from there. I can even load the grub.conf from there and it all works. That in particular pisses me off. It seems it is just not finding the file. No dual boot, all very vanilla. Just can't figure it out.

I have tried any number of things (unemerged then re-emerge grub, rewriting the grub.conf from scratch, read various alternatives to the setup), nothing gets the menu automatically. Any help appreciated. Below are the relevant portions of files. Thanks in advance

from /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user 0 0

/etc/mtab

/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw,noatime 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0

/boot/grub/grub.conf

default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Gentoo 2.6.8-r3
kernel /kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hda3

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject:

wfp,

Change

LordBug · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 88

Personally, I'd do something more like this:

wfp · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Thanks for the suggestions. I did try adding either the (hd0,0) part or the root command. Neither worked. Updated grub.conf below:

/boot/grub/grub.conf

default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Gentoo 2.6.8-r3
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hda3

Again, on a reboot from the command line (which is all I get) I can do the following:

grub> configfile /grub/grub.conf

... and the damn thing loads the menu and gives me the (one) choice I've listed. .I'm used to lilo, so don't know grub well. I have done the following after each change to the grub.conf

>grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
>

Is there something else I should be doing? Thank you for all your help.

shade266 · Guru Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Internal

wfp · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Well, Shade gets the prize. It was in the install. The following made it all work (why I don't know, anyone???).

shade266 · Guru Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Internal

wfp, have a look at this. this will be beneficial to you if you do other installs besides the more common onehttp://linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/grub/html_chapter/grub_toc.html
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