Need Help Editing Grub

Mark Phillips mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
Sun Jan 24 21:03:16 MST 2010


On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> 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?
>
Already done, as I outlined earlier. HOwever, see my post after the one
above to see where I made corrections to what is written above.

Mark

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