Need Help Editing Grub

Eric Shubert ejs at shubes.net
Sun Jan 24 20:55:43 MST 2010


Mark Phillips wrote:
> Eric,
>  
> Maybe this is what KP was trying to say
> grub
> root (hd1,0)
> setup(hd1)
> quit
> 
> Because, when I boot the system now, hd1 is my Linux drive. So I have to 
> setup grub on my Linux drive while it is running. Then I switch the 
> Linux drive to the first ide channel, so it becomes the first mbr to be 
> read, and it has grub installed there. I believe the current 
> configuration has the mbr on the first ide drive (windows) point to the 
> mbr on the second ide drive (linux and grub). I have to break that chain 
> so the mbr of the second ide drive is now the boot mbr.
>  
> The alternative would be to switch drives now, boot with a rescue disk 
> and perform
> grub
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> quit
> 
> Does this make sense?

Yeah. You'll need to edit the menu.lst file at some point, right?

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'



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