Grub 0.95

[Philip Pawley]

At 16/08/2004 12:30 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>It is not entirely clear what you mean by "replacing".  Where is
>a boot partition for this installation and where grub.conf for
>it lives?

I'll try to clarify my post. In particular, I'll quote the "replacement" in full:-

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I have often had occasion to write Grub to my master boot record using a Grub boot floppy. I have used every version since 0.92.

I use "install":

Today I used:
grub> install --force-lba (hd0,6)/usr/share/grub/x86_64-redhat/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0,6)/usr/share/grub/x86_64-redhat/stage2 (hd0,0)/grub.conf

That's straight from "info grub" and it works fine, as it has always done.
(hd0,6) is the FC2 partition. (FC2 uses Grub 0.94).

Then I tried installing grub 0.95 so:
grub> install --force-lba (hd1,0)/usr/share/grub/x86_64-redhat/stage1 d (hd0) (hd1,0)/usr/share/grub/x86_64-redhat/stage2 (hd0,0)/grub.conf

That only differs from the first "install" command  in replacing (hd0,6) with (hd1,0).
(hd1,0) is the FC3 test1 partition. (FC3 test1 uses Grub 0.95).
(In each case, I only use a "/" partition - no separate "/boot").

Doing that, I still get to the grub menu ok. However, when I select which OS to boot, it doesn't boot: it just displays the selection I made - and hangs.

I tried that "install" command twice - in case I had a typo the first time - but it still didn't work.

Now that I have reverted to using the Grub 0.94 from FC2 (the first "install" command),  everything is hunky-dory.

Is this a bug in Grub 0.95?

Thanks,

Philip Pawley