Re: What Menu?? (HELP!!!)

[David & Tamara Carney]

Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> On Nov 1, David & Tamara Carney wrote:
> > Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> > > Place it in /boot/grub/menu.lst and if you have a /boot partition, add
> > > a symlink: "cd /boot; ln -s . boot" (The next version of grub will
> > > hopefully not need the symlink anymore).
> >
> > Jochen,
> >
> >   I think I tried what you suggested - it didn't work. Here's my system, and
> > what I did to try to set up GRUB.
> >
> >   I'm running a Red Hat 6.1 system. It's a dual boot setup, with Win98 SE on
> > the hda1 (hd0,0) partition. My root Linux partition is hda7 (hd0,6). The 
> > boot
> > directory is on hda5 (hd0,4). GRUB is in this directory, ie, 
> > /boot/grub/(grub
> > files, stage1, stage2, e2fs_stage1_5, device.map, and menu.lst).
> >
> >   Any more suggestions??
>
> Yes, install grub again, this time give your boot partition as root:
>   root (hd0,4)
>   setup (hd0)
> And leave the symlink in your boot directory.
>
> Grub's "root", that you set before invoking the command setup, is
> where the grub files resides, in your case the boot partition.  Grub
> searches for the menu in /boot/grub/menu.lst, so the boot partition
> should itself contain a sub-directory "boot"; a symlink is enough.
>
>   Jochen

Jochen,

  Success!! I think I tried about every combination BUT that. Thanks!

David