Grub working on interactive mode

[John Sutherland]

You need to edit you grub.conf file, put ther three lines below into 
your /boot/grub/grub.conf, there's some extra 'mantra' in there as well 
to show you an image as the background, timeouts and other stuff, I've 
attached mine as an example.

The other important file is /boot/grub/device.map is automatically 
generated by the grub command, there is a 'nice' way to do but I've 
forgotten, here's _a_ way to do it:

mv /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/device.map.backup && echo "quit" | 
grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map

This will give you the device mappings for grub style device names.

Then just fix up your grub.conf and do a `grub-install` and you should 
be done :)

To save a little confussion, I have FC1 on hdc2, /boot on hdc1 and WinXP 
on hda2.

Hope that all works for you.

John S.


Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:
> But how can I make grub to do this automatically?
>  
> thanks for the help
> Thiago
>  
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Dirk Wendland <mailto:dirk.wendland at nexgo.de>
>     *To:* fedora-list at redhat.com <mailto:fedora-list at redhat.com>
>     *Sent:* Monday, February 09, 2004 8:00 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: Grub working on interactive mode
> 
> You can try like this
> 
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro hdc=ide-scsi rhgb acpi=on
> 
> grub> boot
> 
> Now you can reconfigure your Linux
> 
> Dirk Wendland
> Saarland
> Germany
> 
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> 
>         ----- Original Message -----
>         *From:* Thiago Vinhas de Moraes <mailto:tvinhas at techbyte.com.br>
>         *To:* fedora-list at redhat.com <mailto:fedora-list at redhat.com>
>         *Sent:* Monday, February 09, 2004 12:23 PM
>         *Subject:* Grub working on interactive mode
> 
>         Hi!
>          
>         I´m trying to boot my FC1 box and the grub now, instead of
>         opening the screen with options to boot on Win or Linux, it now
>         opens a GRUB prompt with lots of options.
>         I tried several, but could not boot to linux. What should I put
>         on the Grub prompt to get into the box?
>          
>         Regards,
>         Thiago

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