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From: Nathan Mace <mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>
To: scottro@despammed.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: GRUB: can't find kernel
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:09:31 -0500
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On Monday 25 February 2002 10:33 am, scottro@despammed.com wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan Mace" <mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>
>
> one last question.  i have grub
>
> > installed from the ports tree, but there is no /boot/grub directory. so
>
> there
>
> > is also no menu.lst how do i get the needed files and stuff in there?
>
> from
>
> > what i've read it should be there, but it's not
> >
> > thanks for all the help
>
> This is something that I ran into in Linux and don't remember if I did in
> BSD or not.  At any rate, what I had to do, and I have no idea why it was
> necessary, was stick in a floppy and, at a command prompt
> grub-install '(fd0)'
>
> After I did that, everything was in the /boot/grub menu save for menu.lst
> which you have to make yourself (though there may have been a sample--it's
> been awhile since I last installed Grub and I don't remember off the top of
> my head)
> Peculiarities in our mail server prevent me from cc'ing the list but feel
> free to copy any part of this in public posting.
> Scott

thanks.  i'm not sure what it did, but it worked and everything is working 
fine.  thanks for all the help.

Nathan

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