Re: Grub boots from command line but not menu

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:20:54 -0800, andrew.bell.ia wrote:

Thanks for your reply.

I don't have grub installed on the slackware distro. Does grub need to
be installed on each OS that it boots? I *thought* that it went to one
location to get its config file and the stage<n> stuff that was needed
to boot. I guess that I assumed once the kernel started loading, grub
was out of the picture. No?

Cheers,

Yes, once grub shows its menu it has enough info to load any file on _its_
root partition. There will be no problems if all of the files necessary
for booting every linux distribution on your machine are also located on
that partition. But, assuming your slackware kernel is on another
partition (with the slackware distro), then grub might not be able to
load it. This is because grub has the ability to read filesystems, but
only as setup. For example, if one distro is using ext2 and another is
using reiserFS, then they need separate grub stage2 files.

BTW, you didn't post your configuration file. I am trying to help you, but
I can't guess every possible mistake you might have made.

BTW, you need to improve your posting style. Apparently, you are
posting from google groups, and their default setting does not include any
context of the thread. This is bad form. Remember, this is Usenet not
Google Groups.

--
Douglas Mayne
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