Grub Configuration

khaleel5000 · 04-12-2006, 04:19 AM

Hello i am a newbie with PCLINUX os
It has LILO bootloader but i wanted 2 FINGURE (temper) my system so i started by bootloader , first of all i INSTALLED GRUB AND CREATED menu.lst on basis of man pages etc
my harddisk is HDB in bios , the linux partition is HDB6 (but grub lil get hdb5 i think) and the /boot is in /hdb6
(fdisk -l shows the LINUX partition as HDB6)
i have (i think ) exshausted all the possibilites but what the GRUB shows (although the time it takes frm showing grub loading then grub loading stage 1.5 then showing the option screen is unusually long ) on any option i choose it shows
root = (hd0,5)
filesystem is jfs type 0X83 (or sorta)
[then is sez)
FILE NOT FOUND

#
# GRUB configuration file
#

# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0

# Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout 30

# Fallback to the second entry.
fallback 1

# For booting LINUX
title help
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.gz

# for booting LINUX
title linux2
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/initrd.img

# for booting LINUX
title linux3
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.gz
module /boot/initrd.gz

# for booting linux
title linux4
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/initrd
module /boot/initrd

# for booting linux
title linux5
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/initrd.gz
module /boot/vmlinuz.gz

masand · 04-12-2006, 07:01 AM

I could not deduce much from what you are trying to say.please reframe your question.

I can only say that the menu.lst file is not specifying the correct files for booting for which you are getting

"File not Found"

So check out the path,filanema etc as you have specified in menu.lst

regards

homey · 04-12-2006, 07:19 AM

Here is what my grub entry for PCLinux looks like. I am using the grub on FC5

Code:

title PCLinuxOS
        root (hd1,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hdb6 nomce acpi=ht
        initrd /boot/initrd.img

khaleel5000 · 04-12-2006, 08:38 AM

well ro , nomce , acpi=ht i dont know abt but lil try the rest of it (it would have been helpful if u would have confirmed as in which drive ur pclinux is like hdc6 etc

homey · 04-12-2006, 08:59 AM

My pclinux is actually on /dev/hda1 but I put in the info to match your situation which you stated as /dev/hdb6.

For you to start using the grub in pclinux on your box. Boot into pclinux, edit the menu.lst to look something like the example I gave.
Then run the command: grub

# If your system is on /dev/hdb6
At the grub> prompt, type: root (hd1,5)

# To have grub loaded in the mbr of /dev/hda
Type: setup (hd0)

# To exit the grub utility
Type: quit

# To load up the devices in /boot/grub/device.map
Type: grub-install /dev/hda