[kwlug disc.] am I asking too much of grub?

[Raul Suarez]

When you installed grub to the MBR, did it confirm that it was able to find the stage files?

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--- On Mon, 4/21/08, Chris Bruner <cbruner at quadro.net> wrote:

> From: Chris Bruner <cbruner at quadro.net>
> Subject: [kwlug disc.] am I asking too much of grub?
> To: "kwlug-disc at kwlug.org" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Received: Monday, April 21, 2008, 9:44 PM
> I'm trying to boot off a usbkey using grub as my boot
> loader.
> I've gotten it to the point where it loads the stage2,
> but it can't seem 
> to understand the filesystem on the usbkey. (ext2)
> 
> My system is configured as
> /dev/hda1   swap
> /dev/hda2   linux (ext2)
> 
> sda1   linux (ext2)
> 
> I've also given it space at the beginning of the usbkey
> to have the grub 
> stage 1 part, so the start block of the partition is 2
> instead of the 
> normal 1.
> 
> The grub menu.lst is
> 
> Title RoboDev
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.25 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga 773
> 
> and so on
> 
> Instead of the normal grub menu coming up, I get the grub
> command prompt.
> 
> It seems it doesn't even get to the menu.lst
> Trying to do a manual load of the config file and kernel is
> similarly 
> fruitless, but I am able to load the files from the hard
> disk.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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