[Grml] Setting up grub into lvm and a suggestion

[Maurice McCarthy]

First of all I believe that lilo was being loaded
as default because lvm did not work properly in
grub. I do not know if this has been corrected.

Secondly, since you already have grub installed 
then enter "grub" followed by

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1

which should give you an answer like (hd0,5) or
whatever. grml2hd usually places grub in the
partition as if it ran

grub>setup (hd0,5)

This would leave you with a system booting windows
only from the hard disk. Microsoft have altered
the master boot record with most every upgrade
their operating system. But ntldr is very stupid
and this allows an easy answer to chainload grub
from ntldr. Quit grub. With ntfsmount an ordinary
user should be able to write to the ntfs partition


zsh% ntfsmount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
zsh% dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/mnt/hda1/grml.mbr bs=512 count=1

The last command must written exactly. It copies
the bootsector of (hd0,5) into the windows
partition at C:\

Now boot windows as administrator. 
Make C:\boot.ini writeable
Open boot.ini in notepad or whatever
and add this line at the bottom:

C:\grml.mbr="grml 1.1"

ntldr loads anything which you point it at. Check
that the timeout line is set at 30 seconds or so
at the top of boot.ini   Next time you boot you
should the option of grml.

Lastly, someone here was effusive about the merits
of grub4dos (and ntfs windows) but I've never used
it. 


Good Luck
Moss

> I suggest, if possible, that grml2hd detects automatically other OSes on
> the hard disk and sets up lilo/grub accordingly during the installation.
> 
> Here I have Windows XP on the first partition - /dev/sda1 - but I don't
> know how to deal with lilo.
> 
> I was thinking that grml2hd would prompt me for choosing grub instead of
> lilo, but it didn not, perhaps because I've installed grml onto a
> logical partition ?
> 
> I know how to setup grub for dual-booting and for booting Linux into a primary partition.
> I guess that setting it up on a logical partition is somewhat different,
> since I have typed "root(hd0,5)" at the grub console in order to setup the root
> device to /dev/sda6, and grub has returned "unknown filesystem type".
> 
> Does anyone have any tip for me?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Cleverson
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