[Sussex] Kernel 2.5.47 Problems

[Steve Dobson]

On 11/18/2002 Geoff Teale wrote:
<snip>
> Steve wrote:
> > At the risk of embarssing you beyond endurance :-) you did re-run the
> > grub boot block installer.  I don't use (and know nothing about) grub.
>
> Which shows... ;)  You don't need to do this with GRUB.  
>
> There is an initial setup for GRUB itself (using the `grub` command
> and some interactive GRUB setup commands), but after that you just
> edit the menu.lst file as and when you need to (the initial setup
> specifies the location of the menu.lst file using GRUB's own device
> syntax (in GRUB syntax (hd0,0) = /dev/hda1).   Each entry in menu.lst
> gives very explicit details about where to find the kernel image.

So is grub a three part loader like FreeBSD?

> However I am starting to doubt my GRUB /boot/grub/menu.lst file is
> correct.. it does seem that it isn't loading the kernel at all.  
> Maybe I've put in a silly typo that I couldn't see yesterday
> (Saturday was a hard night - Sarah's birthday).

Doubt everthing :-) [And happy birthday to Sarah]

Guess you'll have to check that tonight.  Look forward to the update
tomorrow.

> It's typical that the job I've done a million times before would be
> the one I screw up. :)

Boy do I know that one ;-)

Steve