Beta 10 & Grub

From: Tony Preston (apreston_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/21/03

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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 7:17:6 -0500

    I had just installed the Beta 10 (I have a set of partions that I experiment with) and
    everything went fine except for a couple of minor things.

    The first was at the end of the install it said "click on the forward button" instead of the
    NEXT button... (picky picky picky)...

    The next was a bit more of a problem. I have a Nvidia GeForce FX5200 and it so far
    hasn't liked that for X windows (have to use an old 8 mb ATI Rage card which works
    fine), but I have to search for drivers for the better card. I tend to use the old ATI
    card because my real work is under the 6.2 RH and I don't want to mess with updating
    the world (Have to use the old kernel for some work stuff).

    I am having a bit of trouble with GRUB. I have 2 RH, Win ME, and memtest86 setup on
    the GRUB menu. Grub has worked fine for this up till the Beta 10 install. I have two HDs,
    hda and hdb, hda has the WinME C partition and the 6.2 RH partition. The hdb has a Win partition
    and the Beta 10.

    The odd thing is that when I boot Grub says it can't find the image if I boot from the menu. If
    I type c, then the kernel and rootnoverify parameters that are in the grub.confg it works just fine.
    I have to manualy boot the 6.2 partition (which is on hda5 and is specified as hd0,4).

    The partition on hdb boots fine from the menu (the beta 10).

    Any ideas? The grub.conf is exactly what I type (kernel, rootnoverify, then boot), but from the
    menu the RH will not boot, the WinMe boots fine. Is there any known problems with booting off
    of a boot partition versus having the boot in the root partion? I have the boot on hdb in its own
    partition, but the boot where the kernel for 6.2 is in /boot in the root partition. There are no typos,
    I named my 6.2 kernel "cdrom" and type in "kernel /boot/cdrom" and "rootnoverify (hd0,4)" then
    boot which is exactly what is in the grub.conf. When I type in the kernel command it finds the
    image, from the menu it does not.

    Thanks

    apreston_at_comcast.net 

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