Grub question (Ahem....help! Now it just says 'GRUB')

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:58 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Grub question (Ahem....help! Now it just says 'GRUB')
> 
> > >
> > You need to do a grub-install.  You have confused grub, it does not know
> or
> > care what partition is bootable, but it has to know where grub.conf is
> > located so when you changed the partition you didn't change grub.conf so
> > hence you need to do a grub install.  So that grub can locate grub.conf
> >
> I presume that you are correct, but the partition numbers did not
> change. why should grub be confused.
> 
> Instead of reinstalling it in the existing installation, I'm going to
> install it along with the new FC2 installation and boot from that new
> one.
> 
What I mean is not hda5 has changed but the physical location has changed,
i.e

1. hda2
2. hda5
3. hda4

to

1. hda5
2. hda2
3. hda4

now it goes to position 2 to locate grub.conf but it is not there.

The reason I'm saying that is there is a sequence that it goes thru and you
get different messages depending on where it is at.  You are getting GRUB
which means that it was properly booted, but it failed to load the menu
therefore it didn't find the .conf file.  The best way to solve your problem
is to go to the source code and that should clear up what I am saying.