help changing from lilo to grub

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:01:54AM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
> I've started training myself in Xen.  So far I've discovered that my
> boot loader, Lilo, does not appear to like the Xen kernel.  I decided to
> switch to Grub.  Grub and I have some baggage together and we still have
> conflict.  I tried to setup grub and install it to the MBR.  Grub would
> launch at boot but claim that it could not find the file system.
> Perhaps some here can help me out:
> 
> #LILO.CONF
> menu-scheme=Wb
> boot = /dev/hdb
> prompt
> map = /boot/System.map
> lba32
> timeout=150
> delay = 50
> vga = normal	# Normal VGA console                               
> default = sedebian
> 
> # End LILO global section
> # Linux bootable partition config begins
> 
> 	image = /boot/vmlinuz
> 	append = " selinux=1"
> 	initrd = /boot/initrd.img
> 	root = /dev/hdb1
> 	label = sedebian
> 	read-only
> 
> #GRUB MENU.LST
> default		0
> timeout		5
> color cyan/blue white/blue
> 
> title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-1-686 Default
> root		(hd1,0)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro 
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img
> 
> title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-1-686 (single-user mode)
> root		(hd1,0)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro single
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img
> 
> title		Debian Xen
> root		(hd1,0)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-xen-686 root=/dev/hdb1 ro
> initd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-xen-686
> 
> title		Debian Xen (single-user mode)
> root		(hd1,0)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-xen-686 root=/dev/hdb1 ro single
> initd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-xen-686
> #EOF
> 
> I ran 'grub-install hd1' and no errors were reported.  The directory
> /boot/grub contains:
> 
> total 244
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root    197 2008-02-29 08:17 default
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root     45 2008-02-28 15:04 device.map
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root   7620 2008-02-29 08:17 e2fs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root   7456 2008-02-29 08:17 fat_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root   8172 2008-02-29 08:17 jfs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root   4160 2008-02-28 15:11 menu.lst
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root   4201 2008-02-28 15:02 menu.lst~
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root   6892 2008-02-29 08:17 minix_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root   9200 2008-02-29 08:17 reiserfs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root    512 2008-02-29 08:17 stage1
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root 107588 2008-02-29 08:17 stage2
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root   8852 2008-02-29 08:17 xfs_stage1_5

What is in device.map?

What is hda?

I am more used to installing linux from linux by doing
grub-install /dev/sda (or similar) instead.

Who deals with jumping to boot to the second HD to start grub?

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Len Sorensen
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