what is the grub step?!

Michael Wiktowy michael.wiktowy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 22:12:58 UTC 2006


On 1/9/06, jackc <jcraig at brocade.com> wrote:
>
> yes, i understand that, until each of the exits are done, the
> cd is still mounted.
>
> i try and get it out during the reboot, but still i and up back in
> grub(once this am, i did reboot to disk 1)
>
> i find it hard to beleive this is unsolvable...
>
> next?



Dell 2200 ... Is this a laptop that you are putting this on?
If so, often the laptop BIOSes are flakey and not very standard for laptops
so it looks like this might have a bug in it that is reporting the root
filesystem device incorrectly. If you have a GRUB prompt, that means that
the first stage of GRUB in on your harddrive but it can't find the second
stage. You should be able to fix things up using the following GRUB
documentation and might have to customize your map file if your BIOS gives
grub-install some bogus info to build your map file from.

See this link for more pointers:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-natively

Not a step by step solution by any means but might give you some hints to
get going.

/Mike
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