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On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:08:18PM -0800, Dominic Leland wrote: |
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> Well, I got my Gentoo installation almost perfectly. One of the only problems I have left is that, although I followed the Grub instructions to the letter, Grub hasn't been loading my menu.1st file. |
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> I did the file exactly to the specifications of the install instructions, but I still have to manually enter in the commands. I put the file, according to the directions, in my /boot/boot/grub directory. I've thought of putting it all over the place (/boot, /boot/boot, and / as well as /boot/boot/grub) in an effort to try to cover my bases. I would rather see what people here think. |
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> At the very least, this will help pound into me the grub syntax so I can quit being lilo-centric. |
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If /boot is on the root partition, you need to put all the grub files |
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in /boot/grub. Otherwise, if /boot is on its own partition, you need |
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to put everything in /boot/boot/grub. This is because grub knows |
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nothing about the layout of your partitions (i.e., whats in your fstab |
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file) and always looks for the file /boot/grub/menu.lst relative to |
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the root of the partition (not relative to your actual root |
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directory). I suggest you look at the grub info page, under the node |
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"Installing grub natively" for more information. |
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Pete |
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