grub problem - please help!

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:26:26PM +0100, Neil Bird wrote:
> 
>   [cut down version of something I've tried to post N times now;  it
> just keeps disappearing somewhere ... ]
> 
>   Essentially, if I boot of a CD with grub on, I get the menu OK, but
> trying to actually bot gives me 'error 25: disk read error'.  Hitting
> 'c' for the command line and typing the commands in the grub.conf
> verbatim (below: root/kernel/initrd) followed by 'boot' works though.
> 
>   Why might there be a difference?
> 
> 
> default 0
> prompt 1
> splashimage (hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> timeout 4
> 
> title Linux
>   root (hd0,4)
>   kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>   initrd /initrd.img
> 
> -- 
Why exactly do you want the grub on the CD. Why don't you boot with a
rescue disk and  place the grub on hd0?
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