[plug] grub not booting

[Peter Wilsmore]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:38:41AM +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> That would be nice if I could get even a prompt.  This is what I've been
> saying is that even though the BIOS displays the correct information,
> the drive does nothing but sit there after the displaying the hardware
> information.  I've triple checked fdisk to print out how the drive is
> setup and this is the information:
>              start    end    
> /dev/hdb1*     1       50
> /dev/hdb2     51      128 swap
> /dev/hdb3    129     2435
> 
> So based on this my boot would be /dev/hdb1; root = /dev/hdb3 and swap
> /dev/hdb2.
> 
> jlm

Did you run grub-install on hdb before trying to boot off it (grub-install 
/dev/hdb will do it)? Did you want to give us example configureation files 
that you are trying to use and the commands that you are using to install
grub if you are still having troubles?

thanks,
  the Djinn