Grub Problems

[Andrew1963]

While I am trying to install Kubuntu on my newer laptop, I am leaving /home empty. This means I can play around with partitions, etc.

I successfully installed SuSE 10.1 then FC 5 on this machine, so there is nothing physically wrong with it. But when I try to install Feisty Fawn, grub fails to install properly. Then when I try running grub from the LiveCD, I find that I cannot set root properly. The command should be 'root (hd0, 0)' but this causes errors:

hd0 causes error 23: hard disk not recognised

So I type 'root (hd, 0)

which causes error 21: error parsing number

Anyone know what is wrong with the Kubuntu implementation of grub ?

Andrew

[Fintan]

Re: Grub Problems

This is just a quess but if you have suse installed on let's say hda 5, fedora on hda6 and edgy on hda 7 with /home being hda4 and /swap hda 3

Then your "root" for edgy would be (hd0,6)

Can you post a copy of your /boot/grub/menu.lst from edgy?
You can use the live cd and do alt-> kdesu kate to access the file, to do this.

How do you keep /home "empty"? As far as I know user files automaticly go into /home.

I hope this helps a bit

Cheers
F

[penguin.ch]

Re: Grub Problems

The command should be 'root (hd0, 0)'

No; it's root (hd0,0) - no spaces inside the brackets ... further reading: GRUB manual.

Even in (K)Ubuntu, GRUB is working the way (the) GNU would have expected it to 8)