Re: grub floppy snafu

[Uwe Dippel]

Haines Brown wrote:

> Well, I've read the FM a number of times, and did so again carefully
> today. It still leaves unanswered questions.
>  
I concede with pleasure you did ... .

> The install and setup commands for creating a boot floppy look for a
> /boot/grub/menu.lst. But no such menu.lst gets generated. I have to
> create it by hand. Is that correct? (I do have the file in the
> /boot/grub directory of my hd). 
>  
Not quite. Though you might be in the unfortunate situation that it has 
been lost some time.
There had been a problem with the Sarge Netinstaller, that did not 
create the entries for the non-Debian operating systems, so they had to 
be added manually.
But generally, the menu.lst is created correctly by grub without any 
user intervention.

> The grub setup command searches for the stage files in /boot/grub, but
> apparently won't look for them on my hard disk in that location, but
> only on the floppy, where they first must be copied into a proper
> directory tree. 
>  
No, setup looks exactly for the files on the harddisk.
'find' is the keyword to look for here. Depending on partitioning, you 
need one '/boot' more or less ...

> My main question is whether this approach of changing the root command
> to point to the wrong disk sequence is likely to cause problems?
>  
This is beyond my flimsy knowledge of grub, sorry

> I tried fiddling with the map file in /boot without luck, and tried a
> map command in the menu, also without luck. 
>  
Here my personal 2 sen:
I'd try to remove grub ( apt-get ... --purge) and make sure to delete 
all remaining dirs and files; as well as /boot/grub.
Then I'd reinstall with apt-get, create the boot-floppy as described 
from harddisk,
tried all the boots from the grub> prompt on the floppy,
did a find ...
and a setup (hd0).


Good luck,

Uwe