[gobolinux-devel] [gobolinux-commits] tools/ConfigTools/bin GenGrubMenu

[Jonas Karlsson]

2008/1/16, =RiCo= <rico.thorn at gmail.com>:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > lucasvr - 2008-01-15 22:57
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > While discussing this problem with Jonas and Michael Homer on IRC, they
> > told me that GRUB expects the hard disk it was installed onto to be named
> > hd0. This is why our scripts are currently doing that.
> >
> > I wonder, however, why it didn't work if that's the case. I see you have
> > another Linux partition on hd0,0. Do you actually have GRUB there as well?
> > Having GRUB installed only in your Gobo disk, did it work after you changed
> > hd0,0 to hd1,0? Or are you merging Gobo's menu.lst contents with your other
> > Linux' menu.lst and booting from that distribution's GRUB installation
> > instead?
> >
> > On 1/16/08, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
>
> the linux partition on hd0,0 does have grub on it i think, but the
> bios is set to boot from hd1, so it doesnt boot into that grub. It's
> just a 100MB partition to keep space for grub so that i can reinstall
> windows if i want to. I wasn't merging the menu.lst's. and it did work
> after changing hd0,0 to hd1,0.
>
So if I understand this correctly, using bios enumeration, you have
grub installed on hd1 and GoboLinux installed on hd0?

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/Jonas