grub can't find config file

[Steve Holdoway]

Thomas Taylor wrote:

>On Friday 17 June 2005 15:21, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>  
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>>Edwin Olson wrote:
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>>>I did a  clean FC4 install to the second disk (hdb) of my x86 machine.
>>>hda is Windows. During install, I requested grub be written to hda,
>>>and upon reboot, grub runs.
>>>
>>>But grub can't find its config file, so it dumps me at a command prompt.
>>>
>>>I can proceed normally by typing 'configfile /grub/grub.conf'. The
>>>menu pops up and I can boot both windows or linux just fine.
>>>
>>>What can I do to make grub automatically find its config file in this
>>>most obvious of locations? :) Could there be a bug that I'm tickling,
>>>since the config file is on hdb instead of hda?
>>>
>>>-Ed
>>>      
>>>
>>try /boot/grub/grub.conf. This is where the file resides, not where some
>>strange ( non standard? ) link is. There's a standard symlink from
>>/etc/grub.conf, but that's all I know about.
>>
>>Steve
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Edwin:
>Did you set the location of boot as /dev/hdb?  See below.  If not, it's trying 
>to find /boot on /dev/hda.
>
>Tom
>
># NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>#          root (hd0,0)
>#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6
>#          initrd /initrd-version.img
>#boot=/dev/hda            <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< change
>default=0
>timeout=5
>splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>hiddenmenu
>title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
>	root (hd0,0)
>	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
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Updating a commented out line is unlikely to make much of a difference 
(:  I suggest pointing to root being on /dev/hdb as follows instead...

title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
	root (hd0,1)  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet


Steve