frugal install: can't find the grub/menu.lst

Forum: HD Install
Topic: frugal install: can't find the grub/menu.lst
started by: gjhicks

Posted by gjhicks on May 30 2006,02:05

Hi,

Have a frugal install, that is working fine, but need to change one of the boot cheat codes.

Problem is, can't find the relevant grub/menu.lst.

Feel really silly about this, perhaps it is advancing age, as the answer is probably obvious - but not to me.

Have used 'updatedb' and 'locate menu.lst' but only found the /KNOPPIX/boot/grub/menu.lst original file and a symlink to it in /ramdisk/boot/grub/menu.lst.

The setup of the hard disk is:

/dev/hda1 - windows fat32 boot partition
/dev/hda7 - a fat32 scratch partition
/dev/hda8 - the frugal installed KNOPPIX image file, runs as /cdrom
/dev/hda9 - used for /home/dsl and /opt persistent storage
/dev/hda10 - swap

Can anyone help me figure out how to find/edit the grub menu.lst being used?

Thanks,

Geoff.

Posted by mikshaw on May 30 2006,03:01

Check in /mnt/hda8/boot (/cdrom/boot)

Posted by gjhicks on May 30 2006,03:42

Hi,

Thanks for your prompt reply, below is a capture of the file listing output for /cdrom (/mnt/hda8):

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root@lxserver:/cdrom# ls -lRa
.:
drwxrwxr-x 5 root staff 1024 Mar 11 09:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 1024 May 30 11:27 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 11 09:37 KNOPPIX
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 11 09:37 boot
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Mar 11 09:37 lost+found

./KNOPPIX:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 11 09:37 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 root staff 1024 Mar 11 09:37 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 49391660 Mar 11 09:37 KNOPPIX

./boot:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 11 09:37 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 root staff 1024 Mar 11 09:37 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 994807 Mar 11 09:37 linux24
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 802165 Mar 11 09:37 minirt24.gz

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Unfortunately, no sign of the grub files.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,

Geoff.

Posted by mikshaw on May 30 2006,13:49

oO

I don't know.....that seems really odd. Maybe you aren't using Grub? Using a boot floppy? Booting from the bootloader of another operating system?

Posted by gjhicks on May 30 2006,23:34

Yes, it is really odd.

Yes, am using Grub - get the 'Grub 1.5' splash message at boot - and booting off the /dev/hda1 partition (cfdisk confirms that /dev/hda1 is the booting partition).

The grub menu allows dropping down to a limited shell, with a couple of dozen commands. Do you know if there is a way to figure out where the menu.lst file is located from this limited shell?