need seperate partition for Grub?
Hey I've tried to many installs with four different distro's on two different hd's now and none are working! I understand that the first part of /dev/hdd1 should be carved out for Grub is that right?
Didn't work so I tried format the whole thing:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd
So now there can't possibly be a bad boot sector and it still isn't working! What gives??
Didn't work so I tried format the whole thing:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd
So now there can't possibly be a bad boot sector and it still isn't working! What gives??
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dynamik
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Give this a read: http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4269/1/ -
sthomas
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I believe the grub files go into the /boot folder. You can either create a seperate partition for the /boot or you can just create a / partition and then all of the necessary files will copy go into the boot folder on the / partition.Working on: MCSA 2012 R2 -
BeaverC32
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You need to be more specific -- what exactly are you doing when you try to install your distro? When you say it isn't working, what messages are you given?
Edit: Also, this may help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351MCSE 2003, MCSA 2003, LPIC-1, MCP, MCTS: Vista Config, MCTS: SQL Server 2005, CCNA, A+, Network+, Server+, Security+, Linux+, BSCS (Information Systems)