Grub disk: something automatic?

[Dotan Cohen]

> I'll send separately to your email an iso file about 1 Mb a grub2 live
> cd.

Thanks!


> To boot, do one (out of 3) of the following
>
> *1*
> configfile (hd0,x)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
> *2*
> linux (hdy,x)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdax     {sdbx  ?}
> initrd (hdy,x)/initrd.img
> boot
>
> *3*
> set root=(hdy,x)
> chainloader +1
> boot
>
> note: 'x' and 'y' in (hdy,x) and sdax {sdbx ?}  is a real number of your
> partition
> do a search to confirm:
> search -f /vmlinuz
> search -f /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> search -f /boot/grub/menu.lst    {?}
>

I searched Google for this disk hoping to find info, but I found none.
>From where did it come?


> To set grub2 of your Karmic partition, boot your Karmic livecd,
>
>
> at terminal...
> sudo grub-setup -d /media/{kubuntu9.10partition}/boot/grub /dev/sda
>
> substitute /media/{kubuntu9.10partition} with actual partition :)
>
> If you get error message,(mapping fails), do this..
> sudo grub-setup -d /media/{kubuntu9.10partition}/boot/grub -m
> /media/{kubuntu9.10partition}/boot/grub/device.map /dev/sda
>
>
> However, I think it's best to use the grub2.iso and boot up and do a
> grub-install /dev/sda
>

That looks like just what I am looking for!


> Dotan, if I remember correctly from one of your earlier messages, you've
> set up your master/slave drive which is reversed. ie., sda is slave and
> sdb is master. Maybe you want to look at that if you are still unable to
> get this working.
>

You have some memory! That is the wife's machine, it turns out that in
the BIOS one configures the drive order, which is different than the
boot order. It's a mess, I've never encountered that before. However,
this thread is just a general question for keeping me out of trouble.
I'm not working on that machine now.

Thanks!

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