[vox-tech] grub questions

[Ken Bloom]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:39:46 -0400
p at dirac.org (Peter Jay Salzman) wrote:

> On Mon 09 Aug 04,  4:43 PM, Matt Roper <matt at .com> said:
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 06:12:50PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > On Mon 09 Aug 04,  3:03 PM, Matt Roper <matt at mattrope.com> said:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:41:03PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman
> > > > wrote:...
> > > > >    title		Windows NT/2000/XP
> > > > >    root		(hd1,0)
> > > > >    savedefault
> > > > >    makeactive
> > > > >    chainloader	+1
> > > > > 
> > Can you double check the mappings in /boot/grub/device.map?
> 
> I didn't know about this file.  Thanks!  Unfortunately, it looks good:
> 
>    (hd0) /dev/hda
>    (hd1) /dev/hde
>    (hd2) /dev/hdg
> 
> and the Windows grub entry wants to access (hd1,0).  Which is correct.
> 
> > Also, at the grub prompt, try typing "root (" and then using tap
> > completion to select the drive and partition; that might give you
> > some clues about what Grub thinks it's loading.
> 
> I see:
> 
>    grub> root (<TAB>
>       Possible disks are: fd0 hd0 hd1 hd2
> 
> So I completed it:
> 
>    grub> root (hd1,0)
> 
> but not much happened.  :(

Try using rootnoverify instead of root


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