How to fix /boot/grub/menu.lst - still

[joe]

Sorry for not reporting back more promptly. 
Needed to spend a bit of evening time with my bride ;)) 
Regrettably, the 'mkinitrd initrd-win4lin ...' command 
did not work (and I got called to dinner, so was not 
able to report that result). 

I had simultaneously sent an inquiry with all the details 
to support at win4lin.com so I'll be checking with them first 
thing in the morning and I certainly will report whatever 
I eventually find to be the solution. 

In fact, I definitely do plan to prepare a detailed "how-to" 
covering all aspects of this installation as soon as I get 
everything to work correctly. 

At least, I can confirm that I have gotten Mandriva 2006 
(the "free" version) installed on two systems, so I offer 
this comment as encouragement to Mike, the other Plugger 
currently inquiring about this.  I wish I could offer 
some help, but I have notes scattered all over dozens 
of handwritten and printed pages as I've been working on 
this for more than two weeks and still have a ways to go. 
It just shouldn't be this difficult, but sadly, it seems 
to be. Most of the obstacles turn out to be easy to fix, 
but regrettably, I was unable to find a concise, complete, 
step-by-step how-to that covered all (or even most) of 
the bases.  What a shame. 

Joe 




---------- Original Message -----------
From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sent: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:43:14 -0700
Subject: Re: How to fix /boot/grub/menu.lst - part 2 of 2 parts

> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 18:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:01 -0500, joe wrote:
> > > Thanks very much, Craig. 
> > > 
> > > Just to be sure that I am understanding you correctly, 
> > > are you saying that while booted in to the mandriva 
> > > partition, as root, at the command line, I just type this: 
> > > 
> > > mkinitrd initrd-win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk.img win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk
> > > 
> > > ... and the system will (or should) reboot to the win4lin kernel? 
> > ----
> > I'm thinking yes. I know on Red Hat / Fedora systems, you need an initrd
> > image to boot and judging from your grub.conf, Mandriva is no different.
> > The above command should create the initrd image.
> > ----
> > > 
> > > Then, I'm assuming that if this works, I'll need to build a 
> > > new /boot/grub/menu.lst in the mandriva partition to replace 
> > > the one currently being used in the mepis partition. Is that 
> > > right?  I know, one step at a time, but just trying to get 
> > > this all in focus. ;)) 
> > ----
> > interesting point - my thinking is that the only time that this is
> > referenced is at the original boot which I am assuming means that
> > your /dev/hda grub is set to pull this info from hd(0,0) - the /boot
> > volume from your original install (Mepis?) and I can't see the need to
> > have it all duplicated in the Mandriva /boot hd(0,5). In fact, I am
> > thinking that having multiple '/boot' partitions is a source of
> > confusion and I probably would have wanted it all consolidated within
> > one boot partition because I am not smart enough to keep it all
> > straight. Thus, copying grub.lst from the one to the other shouldn't be
> > necessary but it shouldn't hurt anything either.
> ----
> report?
> 
> Craig
> 
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