GRUB Help

[Ed Robitaille]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:57:43 -0400
Ed Robitaille <erobitaille at eagle1st.com> wrote:

> I finally upgraded to SuSE 9.1 Pro. KDE looks really good and everything
> was going well until I decided to re-configure 'grub'. I had been using a boot floppy to load enough info to grab initrd an vmlinuz from /dev/hda1
> 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb3              9742520   5637228   4105292  58% /
> tmpfs                    63332        16     63316   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdb1                15856      7773      7253  52% /boot
> /dev/hda1              9958528   3482728   6475800  35% /windows/C
> /dev/fd0                  1412       247      1093  19% /media/floppy
> 
> I wanted to drop the use of a boot floppy, have 2 options:
> 	1. Windows (default for the better, but unknowing, half)
> 	2. Linux
>  I made the folowing 2 config files
> 
>  menu.lst:
>  
> '
> 
> color white/blue black/light-gray
> default 0
> gfxmenu (fd0)/boot/grub/message
> timeout 10
> 
> title Windows
>     rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>     chainloader +1
> 
> 
> title Linux
>     kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 vga=0x31a splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hdb2  showopts
>     initrd (hd0,0)/initrd
> 
> 
> title floppy
>     root (fd0)
>     chainloader +1
> 
> 
> title Failsafe
>     kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0  3
>     initrd (hd1,0)/initrd
> '
> 
> and grub.conf:
> 
> 
> root (hd1,0)
> install  --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd1,0)/grub/menu.lst
> quit
> 
> "
> I ran grub. When I boot now, windows will not load at all( not good for marital
> bliss). Does any one have any suggestions ? Losing the the Windows is not
> an option.
> " Press ? for keyboard shortcuts
> " Sorted by name (.bak,~,.o,.h,.info,.swp,.obj at end of list)
> "= /home/ed/Mail/save/inbox/
> ../
> .sylpheed_cache
> .sylpheed_mark
> 1
> 2
> 3
> TNX 
> 
> Ed