The GRUB problem – my solution.

[spudzonatron]

Ok, so after a lot of reading on here i see people having the issue with HDD installs hanging on GRUB and not booting. Here’s what i did;

1. Make sure you copied the image correctly.
Using Cristian Colombini’s PDF install guide (on this site), make sure you used the correct expression;

gunzip -c zeroshell.img.gz>/dev/hda 

NOT

 gunzip -c zeroshell.img.gz>/dev/hda1

This seems to be a problem for people, and it took me a few goes untill i realized what i’d done wrong.

2. Make sure to set the partition bootable.
I simply used

fdisk /dev/hda

then ‘a‘, ‘1‘, ‘w‘ to set the first partition bootable.

Hope this helps someone… and my first post here too.

[giacomo]

Hi,

I still have problems.
I have installed the latest version (beta 11) on HD.
The installation ends with this: 87.8%.
At the reboot I have:

GRUB loading, plese wait…
Error 2

Can you help me?
Thank you.

Giacomo.

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