What GRUB partition I type in?

[hamolton]

I just did the Puppy universal installer, and now I have to set up grub. I went in to GRUBCONFIG and now have to put in which partition I want GRUB in. I have Windows in sda1 and puppy frugal in sda2. What do I type in?

[obxjerry]

I would put grub in sda2. In the grub tool I use you would type /dev/sda2. Do not type ect as shown in the example.

[hamolton]

grubconfig says it's read only. now what?

[Béèm]

What puppy version please.
What filesystem on sda2?

[hamolton]

puppy v. 5.2, on ext2.

[moB]

grubconfig says it's read only. now what?

All these wizards make my head spin... Conan was right--no wizards! magic bad.

It looks as though you have at least two partitions on one HD:

• .. [ms = ] GNU'nix = grub
  
  1. [c:\ = ] sda1 = (hd,0,0)
  
  2. [z:\ = ] sda2 = (hd0,1)

[List showing equivalent partition names.]

I write z, because I don't see your actual setup. msWin may call it whatever, but the point is that it's a second partition on the one physical drive.

If not, that changes things. (For a seond physical drive you'd have sdb1=(hd1,0), for example.)

I prefer to make manual grubinstall. See here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 14&start=5 & try again.
Perhaps the magic will work--if not do it yourself manually.
It worked for alternator, in the end

Can't see why the partition or directory is read only--are you leaving something out?

moB

But oh! shipmates!
on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight;
and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.
--Melville, Moby Dick

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[Béèm]

I suppose you did boot from the CD.
Go to a terminal and type fdisk -l and post the output here.

Also type in a terminal mount / dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
Then type mount and post the output here also.

[hamolton]

Thanks for all the responses...
I actually ended up unmounting the partition and the program worked.
Now how do I get the computer to boot to GRUB on sda2 instead of strait to Windows? I couldn't find anything in the bios. Should I modify the windows bootloader?

[Béèm]

Post the contents of menu.lst here

[hamolton]

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# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'.  Mon Jan 17 12:16:45 2011
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Other bootable partition config begins
  title Windows (on /dev/sda1)
  rootnoverify (hd0,0)
  makeactive
  chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux (on /dev/sda2)
  root (hd0,1)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=773
# Linux bootable partition config ends
title Install GRUB to floppy disk (on /dev/fd0)
pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
root (hd0,1)
setup (fd0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/sda2)
root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0,1)
pause Press enter to continue.
title -     For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title -     For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
root (hd0)

[rcrsn51]

When you install GRUB to dual-boot with Windows, there are two different configurations. It's hard to tell which one you used, but here is the easiest work-around at this point. Open a console and type these commands

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grub
root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0)
quit 

Reboot.

[Edit] You stated above that you have Puppy frugal, but your menu.lst is for a full install. I would recommend that you use the install method here.

[hamolton]

Thank you!
I'm now neither mac nor pc!
I'm winlux!

[Béèm]

If you are happy and for the sake of fellow posters can you edit your initial post and add [SOLVED] at the end of it.