Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:09:31 -0500 From: Nathan Mace <mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> To: scottro@despammed.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GRUB: can't find kernel Message-ID: <200202260413.XAA18399@uce55.uchaswv.edu> In-Reply-To: <002e01c1be11$bba92330$3008a8c0@starlowin2k> References: <002e01c1be11$bba92330$3008a8c0@starlowin2k>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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