Grub

[Karl Larsen]

    All computers have a bios that does many things. The one thing I'm 
interested in today is it's assignment of hard drives that are ide 
devices. On my bios it reads the hard drive and finds out if it is set 
as a Master or a Slave. It puts them in it's list in that way. There is 
a cable select thing which requires a special cable which I do not have.

    Once it has the hard drives assigned the bios is done. Now in Linux 
there is the new Grub which is pretty simple. It stores all it's stuff 
at /boot/grub/ and it puts the file grub.conf in /etc/. It needs to put 
some information in the Master Boot Record part of a hard drive so it 
can read that information and boot the proper system.

    Getting grub working has been a simple task. I learned from this 
list that all you need to do is start grub in a root terminal and once 
it comes up do this:

    1. Tell grub which root you want to boot with: #grub> root (hd1,5) 
and hit enter. It will say what kind of partition it found.

    2. Now let grub put this information into the MBR with:
# grub> setup (hd0) which will put the data onto the first hard drive's MBR.

    This works fine on FC6 and earlier but it fails on F7. There are 
those who think it is the bios which is changing. They are wrong.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.