[Wylug-help] Grub, dual boot query

[Don Magee]

Mike wrote:
> Thanks, Don. Progress, I think, but still cloudy.
> 
> Using a Knoppix CD, opened a terminal and typed "grub-floppy" which
> elicited the response "Can't find /lib/grub/*-*/stage1, aborting".
> 
> However, Knoppix shows the discs and partitions on the "desktop" screen
> and I note hda1-10 (all its W98 partitions) and hdb1, hdb2.
> Knoppix-Konqueror showed me hdb1 contains grub/ with device map,
> grub.conf and all the usual suspects along with vmlinux-2.6.1, Systemmap
> et al (same level as grub/).
> 
> On trying to see what's in hdb2, Knoppix-Konqueror came up with "Could
> not mount device. The reported error was: mount: I could not determine
> the filesystem type, and none was specified." Does that mean I have a
> duff installation, or that Knoppix can't get past the boot loader
> password? I suspect the former, but will try a standard installation
> without boot loader password anyway. If it works, at least I'll have
> eliminated suspicion of: 
> 
> The main suspects now, it would seem, would be the HDD and the quality
> of the downloaded iso images I used, or their copying onto CD, done on
> Nero with the W98 box. I have another 80GB HDD I could try and have so
> far downloaded three of the four CDs onto my FC2 box, to burn with
> cdrecord, then to try another install. The download can continue on this
> box while I try another install on the other. Mumbo-jumbo? Whassat? Very
> time consuming is what!
> 
> Any quicker test methods, or indeed comments on anything I may have
> missed or am not understanding, gratefully received.
> 
> Thanks again to all of you. I get a feeling we're getting there, albeit
> slowly.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 

If there are only 2 partitions on /dev/hdb then hdb2 is probably the 
swap partition so it won't mount.

I'm not sure why knoppix won't make a grub disk. I did get the command 
line wrong. It should be:

grub-floppy /dev/fd0

But you probably worked that bit out.

What version are you using. I use v3.8. The stage1 file is in 
/lib/grub/i386-pc on my version. Maybe you need to be root but v3.8 
works as the default user.

If you can find the grub files you can make the floppy with dd. If all 
else fails I can email you an image.

Regards


Don Magee