Incredible frustration at Grub/linux!

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

I'm not a grub user, but maybe some of this will be useful?

Random Googles show this:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html#q11
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg05498.html
http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2000-October/005259.html
http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2000-October/005260.html
http://linux-sxs.org/distros/gentooinstall.html (see #5)
http://smtp.openna.com/pipermail/openna-users/2003-September/000044.html
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm.xml

I'll stop now. Hopefully there's something useful in one of them.

A few highlights include the following:
IMPORTANT NOTE: if your *boot* partition is reiserfs, be sure to mount it
with the "-o notail" option so GRUB gets properly installed. Make sure
that "notail" ends up in your new /etc/fstab boot partition entry, too.

   1.  Install GRUB into the directory /boot/boot/grub instead of
/boot/grub. This may sound ugly but should work fine.
   2. Create a symbolic link before installing GRUB, like cd /boot && ln
-s . boot. This works only if the filesystem of the boot partition
supports symbolic links and GRUB supports the feature as well.
   3. Install GRUB with the command install, to specify the paths of GRUB
images explicitly. Here is an example:

      grub> root (hd0,1)
      grub> install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst
      



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