Grub on a floppy
September 30, 2004 06:34 AM
I have made a grub boot floppy to test my new kernel. Every time I start Linux i have to write:
>root (hd0,5)
>kernel /boot/vmlinuz
>boot
Is it possible to automate this? I know that there is suppose to be a grub.conf file somewhere but I don't know where to put it or how to configure grub to use it.
168
September 30, 2004 04:07 PM
grub.conf is located in /boot/grub/grub.conf . You can easily edit it, I'll give you one item of my grub.conf as an example:
Just adjust this to whatever you want.
timeout=5color light-gray/blue black/light-grayboot=(hd0)default=0title Gentoo 2.6.8 Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 ro root=/dev/hdb1Just adjust this to whatever you want.
October 01, 2004 04:22 AM
I did not have any grub.conf file before. So I created one in /boot/grub/ but when I rebooted I got the same console and had to type everything again.
I use slackware 10 and that dist comes with lilo instead of grub so I had to download it from the slackware-current packages.
I use slackware 10 and that dist comes with lilo instead of grub so I had to download it from the slackware-current packages.
145
October 01, 2004 09:26 AM
Actually it's not /boot/grub/grub.conf but /boot/grub/menu.lst
Many distros create a symbolic link named grub.conf because the name makes more sense but the actual config file is menu.lst
Many distros create a symbolic link named grub.conf because the name makes more sense but the actual config file is menu.lst
168
October 01, 2004 10:33 AM
Quote: Original post by SwSh
Actually it's not /boot/grub/grub.conf but /boot/grub/menu.lst
Many distros create a symbolic link named grub.conf because the name makes more sense but the actual config file is menu.lst
This might be true, well I didn't know about it. However, it doesn't matter now as qwert hasn't got grub installed yet. In spite of grub.conf being a symbolic link to menu.lst, I'd recommend editing the grub.conf.
October 02, 2004 04:05 AM
YES! I got it working.
I didn't realize that I had to do it manually:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html#q4
I thought I could use grub-install.
I didn't realize that I had to do it manually:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html#q4
I thought I could use grub-install.
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