[5914] in testers
Re: Athena missing in grub configuration file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Tue Jun 8 03:20:02 2004
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 03:20:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
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Now that I think about it, near the end of the update, there was a message
that said "grubby fatal error" and something about not being able to find
an appropriate template.
I also seem to be missing /boot/initrd-2.4.21-15.EL.img, which is present
on opus.mit.edu, a Linux-Athena 9.3 machine.
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Kevin Chen wrote:
> I just updated from Athena 9.2.29 to Athena 9.3.6 on a dual-boot system
> including Windows XP.
>
> After doing so, I found that my grub.conf file contained no way to boot
> Athena. It changed to the following (note that this is hand-typed, not
> copied):
>
> # grub.conf created by Linux Athena installer
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
> title Windows XP (single user mode)
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> I believe I previously had a Linux-Athena option, a Linux-Athena
> (single user mode) option, and a Windows XP option.
>
> --
> Kevin Chen
> http://www.sneswhiz.com/
>
