help bypassing GRUB...
Hi there...
I've used *nix platforms quite a bit in the past, but always through a shell for programming purposes. Until quite recently, I've never had root access to one, so I am really quite the newbie insofar as administration goes. I have what I think is a simple problem: on a Red hat 7.2 box, I need to re-install the OS but GRUB is refusing to acknowledge the boot.img I have put in the floppy (fd0). Would someone with a bit of patience explain to me what I could be doing wrong, or even simply explain what I should do to get the box to load the boot.img from the disk rather than invoking GRUB? thanks in advance for any help! Verbal :D |
Ok can you change your boot sequence in BIOS so you'd be able to boot from floppy first instead of HD?
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Hi there...
thanks for the response. editing BIOS was actually one thing I was able to think of, unfortunately, there was no option for changing the drive from which to boot (that I was able to find anyways, there were very few options so I dont 'think' I missed it). What'd I give for Award's BIOS right about now :) Is there a way to simply tell GRUB to use the boot.img on the disk? I'm searching google now (for GRUB docs), but I am not finding a lot of help on this specific question, and I really need to figure this out before the sun rises :) thanks again |
When you get the grub menu screen, press the ' e ' key to edit and then the ' c ' key to get a command line. At the grub prompt enter:
root (fd0) chainloader +1 boot Don't forget to put your disk in before entering these commands. I tried this out on a kernel disk and it worked. |
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Good luck. |
thanks for the help everyone!
linuxcool's solution worked out and gave me just what I needed. I have the OS all reinstalled and I'm free to get back to the things I actually understand, like playing with my compilers :) thanks again Verbal |
You're welcome. :)
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