From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 7:56: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B697137B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:56:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE6443F85 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:56:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) id h27Fu2kH035269; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:56:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:56:02 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Antoine Jacoutot Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting 5.0 from GRUB Message-ID: <20030307155602.GA6691@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1047050874.3e68ba7a63166@webmail.lphp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1047050874.3e68ba7a63166@webmail.lphp.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 07), Antoine Jacoutot said: > Selon Dan Nelson : > > In the last episode (Mar 07), Antoine Jacoutot said: > > > On Friday 07 March 2003 16:06, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > I don't have any problems booting w98, w2k, and FreeBSD 5.0 > > > > with grub at home. Go into grub's commandline mode, and use > > > > tab-completion to verify that your path to /boot/loader is > > > > correct. > > > > > > Here is what I get: > > > > > > grub> root (hd0,4,a) > > > > > > Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > > > > Try "root (" and hit tab from there. > > I get nothing but "root (" whenever I hit the TAB key: > grub> root ( > grub> root ( > grub> root ( Then grub can't see any disks at all. If you just ran 'grub' from a shell prompt, try actually booting into grub itself; sometimes the Unix 'grub' command can't find all the disks the real grub sees. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message