[TriLUG] slackware ... grub?

stan briggs stan at StanBriggs.com
Wed May 24 20:59:32 EDT 2006


i agree that the bootloader info isn't being written properly to the
MBR. but slackware only offers the slackware (or nothing) option. there
is never an opportunity to do anything to the MBR, is there?

stan

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Faulkner
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 8:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] slackware ... grub?


Your new bootloader info probably isn't being written properly to the
MBR.

Make sure to run grub-install /dev/foo (where foo=hd dev node)

--Jay

On 5/24/06, stan briggs <stan at stanbriggs.com> wrote:
> all,
>
> so i've been through the complete slackware 10.2 install three times 
> now trying to figure out what i'm doing wrong. i thought that i was 
> installing LILO incorrectly but even when i tried the installation 
> without LILO i get the same symptom, which is:
>
> starts boot with bios-level hardware detection, pauses at the "boot 
> from cd" prompt, and then proceeds to the word "GRUB" on a line by 
> itself at which point it's a hard freeze.
>
> this machine had rh9 on it before with a small grub(?) partition which

> i removed (during my second installation) and added to the partition 
> from which "/" is mounted.
>
> google/linux gave no joy.
>
> any ideas or suggestions?
>
> thanks,
> stan
>
>
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