[Gllug] Upgrading to grub2

[John Edwards]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:40:16PM +0000, Sanatan Rai wrote:
> On 9 February 2011 16:28, John Edwards <john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:27:16PM +0000, Sanatan Rai wrote:
> > When you say @grub but doesn't seem to see anything do you mean:
> > 1) grub1 can not load it's config
> > 2) grub1 can not chain load grub2
> > 3) grub2 can not load it's config
> > 4) grub2 can not load the kernel
> > 5) the kernel can not load the initrd
> > 6) the initrd can not load the rootfs
> 
> Case 4) grub not able to load kernel. This was because I had
> chosen /boot to install grub on, rather than /dev/sda.

If you are chain loading from GRUB 1 then this should not be a
problem.

But if you are loading GRUB 2 directly then I think you *have*
to install it in the MBR. At least that is what I have had to do
on a couple of Ubuntu 10.04 machines last year.



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