I went through almost same process as you did, recently.
And I finally succeeded to boot with boot option prompting.
The secret is: LoL

Just copy your grub.conf as menu.lst at the same directory.

The grub boot loader recognized the menu.lst only not the grub.conf

good luck!

-sass

2006/7/30, sean <sean@???>:
> First of all, I gotta say all of you have been a great help... and I
> love Dyne2!
>
> Okay, this is the last item on my to-do list and I've ran out of ideas.
> (The good news, is I only had two problems) I have Dyne2.1 docked on
> /mnt/hd1/1. I have a nest on hd1/2. Everything boots fine with the disk,
> but I've been trying to create a full install. I've tried virtually
> every option, and even re-formatted the system twice to make a clean
> start. I found this note in the grub.conf that came with Dyne2.1:
>
> # install on the first partition of your harddisk, run:
> # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hd1/1 /dev/hda1
> # then copy this file to /mnt/hd1/1/boot/grub/grub.conf
> # edit it for your needs and run grub giving the command
> # root (hd0,0)
> # setup (hd0)
>
> I did exactly that. The install works fine... all positive output. The
> entries I'm using for the grub.conf itself are fine... and I believe I
> can establish that because when I invariably get the grub> prompt I can
> enter each of my config lines by hand and the system will boot fine.
> Also strange; from the grub> prompt I can enter this command:
>
> configfile (hd0,0)/boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> which brings up a menu, with dynebolic as the only option... which I can
> then select, and the boot proceeds normally.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -sean
>
>
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