[Wylug-help] Grub Booting Problem

Chris Davies MBCS chris.davies at bcs.org.uk
Wed May 24 15:27:18 BST 2006


David Whiteley wrote:
> I have upgraded the kernel, and installed Grub.  When it boots it is
> ignoring the /boot/grub/menu.lst, and is dropping into the grub command
> line.
> 
> I can then boot my system by using the "root", "kernel" , "initrd" and
> "boot" commands specifying the correct arguments.
> 
> If I use the "configfile /grub/menu.lst" command it loads up my
> menu.lst, and boots correctly.

It's possible that grub thinks your boot partition is / instead of /boot. You 
could try variations on grub-install (assuming that's not debian-specific).

Chris
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