Re: Grub problem

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:48:32PM +0200, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 March 2004 07:24, Denham Eva wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > New to fedora and have installed it, grub was default (I don't remember being able to choose lilo), It asked to create a boot disk, which I did. When the installation completed the harddisk comes up with a grub prompt at which I can't do much(or should I say, I don't know what to do). It however does boot from Floppy drive.
> > 
> > Now I usually use lilo with all my Redhat servers, so I don't know grub at all.
> > After reading the man page I soon realized I had no clue.
> > I am also too afraid to try and "play" with it as I might loose my WinXP partition.
> > So can anyone help me out with the synatx of the grub.conf file?
> > 
> > My machines configuration is as follows
> > /dev/hda1 WinXP partition.
> > /dev/hda2 /
> > 
> > How do I write grub to MBR so that it will run at bootup?
> > 
> > Many Thanks, any help will be appreciated.
> > Regards
> > Denham Eva
> > 
> Try this:
> --- /etc/grub.conf ---
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> #splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core 1 (2.4.xx-xxx)
>         root (hd0,1)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.xx-xxxx ro root=LABEL=/
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.xx-xxxx.img
> title Windowx XYZ
>         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> 	chainloader +1
> 	makeactive
> 	boot
> --- cut ---
Actually you don't need the makeactive and boot lines eiter.
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