Grub and Partition for /boot

[Mr.Macdonald]

I have a different partition for each of the following folders: / /boot /home /tmp /data

I have been having trouble getting Grub to load the system correctly. Could someone show me their: fstab, grub menu.lst, and the results of fstab -l

And anything that would be helpful

[matt_kleviar]

either do a grub install by setup command by after going in to command prompt of grub.
pr
run grub-install script....
in both case you need to have stage1 and stage 2 file in /boot/grub folder..

your menu.lst contain compiled kernel imgae paths and boot parameters.

[Mr.Macdonald]

run grub-install script....
in both case you need to have stage1 and stage 2 file in /boot/grub folder..

I have done that

I have a partition for / (hda2) and another for /boot (hda3) should I put the /boot as my grub root or / as grub root.

Keep in mind that grub (to my knowledge) doesn't recognize sdXX format, but archlinux uses that format (sdXX) for all drives. Either that or because my drive (in other linux) was and hdXX drive.

Again it would be really nice for someone to provide an example

or fill this template

title ArchLinux
	root (???, ?)
	kernel ______________ ro root=/dev/????
	initrd _______________

I have read and found that my /boot/kernel26.img is the initrd
And /boot/vmlinuz is the kernel

Thank You

[Jonathan183]

Example my grub entry for Arch ...

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,11)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda12 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

In this instance I don't have a separate boot partition.

I think if you have root on sda2 and boot on sda3 then you should have something like ...

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

Unless you have a symlink in your boot partition then you may need to modify the entry to

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img