grub.conf?

[Derek Broughton]

das wrote:

> I was reading http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/, and trying
> to do it. Even from the repository I installed grub-splashimage package.
> 
> But, I was not getting the grub.conf anywhere, neither in /etc, nor
> in /boot/grub.
> 
> And even grub-install is not working, it is giving very queer results:
> 
> <<
> dd at mahammad:~$ sudo grub-install hd0,0
> /dev/sda1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
> dd at mahammad:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda1
> /dev/sda1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
>>>
> 
> So, it seems, Ubuntu treats grub in a special way. Can anyone suggest
> any documentation? '/usr/share/doc/grub-doc' after installing grub-doc
> is no help either.

I kept getting those errors when trying to install grub (grub2, actually, on
ubuntu - "grub" is 1.95 and doesn't use grub.conf, it uses menu.lst) for a
system with root on an LVM.  I thrashed with it for two days before finally
giving up and reinstalling my root fs on a regular partition.
-- 
derek