[TriLUG] booting with grub2

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> grub2 is out, but without any documentation.
>
> I can get it to boot my machine off a floppy by feeding commands by hand from 
> the grub prompt (substitute "linux" for "kernel"), but I don't know how to 
> tell it to automatically read a config file (menu.lst or menu.conf) and boot 
> from the commands there.
>
> I can tell grub to read the file menu.lst (which has a working entry from 
> above) with the `configfile` command, but when I boot, grub says that I 
> haven't given it a kernel, so the command `configfile` doesn't seem to make 
> grub read the file.

hmm, after loading the config file, if I wait the "timeout" 
value, the machine boots normally. I haven't found how to
tell grub2 to read the config file automatically and just 
boot. The name/location of the config file is not a 
parameter of grub-install

Thanks Joe


>
> Anyone got grub2 to work automatically yet?
>
> Thanks Joe
>

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