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

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grub on hd1 and hd0, but booting from bios to hd1, Gobo is also on hd1
On 1/16/08, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> /Jonas
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