Booting from grub 2 console

Booting from grub 2 console

[Andev Debi]

Hello,
Ive installed grub 1.95 on a debian system using
#grub-install /dev/hda

After rebooting, i get the grub console. I searched a lot on the internet
for any procedure to boot my system from here, but got nothin.
Most of them are for grub legacy, and all the commands have  changed.

So if u please specify this, it will be clear for everyone interested
how to deal with tht.

Thank You,
Andev

Re: Booting from grub 2 console

[Andev Debi]

On 8/15/07, Andev Debi <andev.debi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Ive installed grub 1.95 on a debian system using
> #grub-install /dev/hda
>
> After rebooting, i get the grub console. I searched a lot on the internet
> for any procedure to boot my system from here, but got nothin.
> Most of them are for grub legacy, and all the commands have  changed.
>
> So if u please specify this, it will be clear for everyone interested
> how to deal with tht.
>
> Thank You,
> Andev
>

Ok, after a lot of tinkering around, i found the way:

grub>set root=(hd0,1)
grub>linux (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-486 root=/dev/sda1 ro

grub>initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.21-2-486
grub>boot

This should do it. I think this all should be present in the grub.cfg
file which should have been created by grub-install.
The default grub-install did not create this file. I will manually
create this file and try to boot it.

Thanks,
Andev.

Re: Booting from grub 2 console

[Steven]

If you're using Debian Stable (Etch) then you want to work with /boot/
grub/menu.lst .  The command `update-grub` will typically generate the 
correct entries for you as long as you've followed standard Debian 
procedure for building and installing kernels.