Re: Unable to dual boot using LILO nor GRUB with Win98

[Mike Watson <mikew crucis net>]

I now have GRUB working too.  I entered:
grub-install --recheck /dev/hda

So, the faulty BIOS entry for /dev/hdb was the culprit.  

Thanks to all who've helped me on this.  Once upon a time, many years ago, I was
a Solaris sysadmin.  I don't do that anymore, but I like to maintain my knowledge
of things Unix and Linux.

Mike W

Mike Watson wrote:
> 
> I haven't had a chance to check since I got LILO fixed.  But...since GRUB uses
> BIOS for drive detection, I suspect my screwed up BIOS enty for /dev/hdb may be
> the reason GRUB couldn't find the stage files on the /boot filesystem.
> 
> I'll check this in a bit and answer your question if I can.
> 
> Mike W
> 
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >
> > On 2001-12-31, Mike Watson wrote:
> >
> > >I tried running GRUB as you indicated below and got an error 1 indicating it
> > >couldn't find one of the stage files.
> >
> > Care to quote the entire GRUB output of both commands?
> >
> > >> As a last resort, try this one in GRUB shell:
> > >>
> > >> grub> root (hd1,0)
> > >> grub> install (hd1,0)/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+22 p
> > >>   (hd1,0)/grub/stage2 (hd1,0)/grub/grub.conf
> >
> > (hd0) = /dev/hda = MBR
> > (hd1) = /dev/hdb
> > (hd1,0) = /dev/hdb1
> >
> > Your /dev/hdb1 is mounted as /boot, so on it the /grub directory
> > should exist including the stage* files. What does GRUB not find?
> >
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