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After installing redhat 9, GRUB loads, but it does not seem to recognize ANY partition? My goal was to create a winxp/redhat 9 dual boot system on my laptop, but now all that happens is GRUB loads and I am completely lost as to how to unhide them and/or register the two partitions with GRUB. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
if you type
(hd0,
and then <tab>, grub should give you a list of available partitions as it seeks to autocomplete your command.
grub has useful functionality, but you'll need to learn about it, I recommend Daniel Robbin's piece on grub, out there in ibm pdf format if you look under google. It's easy reading htoug hi t wil take 20 mins or so.
The title of your post, "fixing" is alot to ask out of grub, but I supppose that's why I read it, it stuck out. IT will certainly "see" partitions if given half the chance.
#grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
#NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda2
default=1
timeout-10
splashimage-(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-6)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-6 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20.6.img
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
that might be two <tabs> in quick succession that are needed, bash style.
if you type "help" you'll get a list of poss commands. there's one there for tellign grub to use a certain conf. file as long as you know it's path and name.
grub paths are slightly different
Hmm, well I've managed to actually boot into the windows segment by just following the commands in the grub.conf... will try Linux next...
[EDIT: Excellent, linux is booting, too! Now, is there any way to automate this? Or will I have to type in the instructions every time? Thanks for all of your help!!!!!]
Originally posted by aryth Hmm, well I've managed to actually boot into the windows segment by just following the commands in the grub.conf... will try Linux next...
[EDIT: Excellent, linux is booting, too! Now, is there any way to automate this? Or will I have to type in the instructions every time? Thanks for all of your help!!!!!]
Edit grub.conf to contain the commands you used for the appropriate selection.
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