Grub into hda, md0, hda1, or hda2???

Seb74 · 2006-10-08 20:10:06

It says it should usually be installed in the MBR, but which of all might that be??? I have 4 choises as my topic explains

hda1 is root and hda2 is swap, at least I think its how they were named during partitioning.
So first alternative, /dev/hda, ought to mean the whole drive, and thats what I'll choose??? Or do I choose /dev/hda1 since thats root?
Or md0, whatever that is?

Oh well, maybe someone can help here quickly and maybe I'll be able to boot my new Arch-installation.....boot into more troubles I guess

Thanks

(Didn't have any nameserverns from DHCP in resolv.conf when I checked configuration in step 4 or 5 or whatever it was during install....maybe its because Kernel wasn't installed yet, and network not up really yet? Stupid order checking configs before Kernel if thats the case....)

detto · 2006-10-08 20:12:17

If you want to install it to your MBR it has to be "grub-install /dev/hda"

Seb74 · 2006-10-08 20:21:13

detto wrote:

If you want to install it to your MBR it has to be "grub-install /dev/hda"

What?
Should I choose /dev/hda you mean? I dont have any grub-install/dev/hda :S

EDIT: Again, have made only two partitions, / first and /swap after it.
My choses for GRUB-install are the following four.

/dev/hda
/dev/md0
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda2

noriko · 2006-10-08 21:00:45

'detto' meant ... just use the command ...

grub-install /dev/hda

that will install grub to mrb on the harddrive = hda...

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[0] - alternatively, if you can have the grub files installed somewhere else ... ie ..

grub-install --root-directory=/sep_boot_partition /dev/hda

so you'd have grub accessible from the mbr ... (if u don't understand this 'mrb' (master boot record), feel free to ignore it... just install it there - /dev/hda), then you would have the file at whichever partition is mounted at /sep_boot_partition ... that means, instead of editing ur grub menu.lst, in /boot/grub .. it'd be at /sep_~/grub/

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[1] - please not the above was simply a tip...

as observed form ur other post.. u'd simply need tyhe first option...'[0]'

Seb74 · 2006-10-08 21:05:30

Yeah, it worked on /dev/hda

Now the big problem when I boot into the OS is that I dont get my nameservers from DHCP into resolv.conf
Every other OS manages it, but Arch for some reason dont get that info from my router. I get my statical IP from DHCP at least, but not the nameservers it seems

Ouch, really ouch

EDIT: Needed to enter dhcp in rc.conf, works now.
And it should be "dhcp" and not "DHCP" too

noriko · 2006-10-08 21:22:17

as suggested here://http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=24355&highlight=resolv+conf+nameserver
simply add them manually ... or just ad ur router's ip

my resolve is ...

nameserver 194.16.8.100
nameserver 194.16.4.100
search

my router ip is .. 192.16.0.1

Seb74 · 2006-10-08 21:24:10

noriko wrote:

as suggested here://http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=24355&highlight=resolv+conf+nameserver
simply add them manually ... or just ad ur router's ip
my resolve is ...
nameserver 194.16.8.100
nameserver 194.16.4.100
search
my router ip is .. 192.16.0.1

Yeah I knew that, but feels better to get them automatically, if they would change later on or something.
Anyway, read my recent edit to my above post, I solved it (with some fast help from another forum)

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#1 2006-10-08 20:10:06

Grub into hda, md0, hda1, or hda2???

#2 2006-10-08 20:12:17

Re: Grub into hda, md0, hda1, or hda2???

#3 2006-10-08 20:21:13

Re: Grub into hda, md0, hda1, or hda2???

#4 2006-10-08 21:00:45

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#5 2006-10-08 21:05:30

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#6 2006-10-08 21:22:17

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