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Re: Successful install, but no boot



Clive Menzies schrieb:

> J.A. de Vries wrote:
>
>> Hi Goswin,
>>
>> My apologies, I sent my answer to you directly. Here it is again, but
>> this time with a propper list-reply:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Check that the bios and grub agree on the order of the drives. Try
>>> running grub-install for the other drive or switch the mapping in
>>> /boot/grub/device.map.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I forgot to mention in my first message that I have removed the second
>> drive in order to reduce to problem to the most simple setup. So right
>> now I have only 1 HDD as the primary master and 1 DVD player as the
>> secondary master.
>>
>> Just to be sure I changed /boot/grub/device.map anyway [1], but it did
>> not help.
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion.
>>
>> I get the feeling that the system somehow is not able to access or read
>> the MBR, but why that might be I am not sure. I thought of writing the
>> MBR anew, but this Live CD does not offer grub, nor grub-install. Do you
>> know if I can use a Knoppix 3.8.2 CD on an amd64 system without asking
>> for more trouble?
>>  
>>
>
> DFS (debian from scratch) is a great Live 'CD' with lots of tools and
> it boots a grub prompt:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/dfs.html
>
> Regards
>
> Clive
>
>
>
>
>

Hello,

http://www.kanotix.org
is an debian based Live-CD with Grub Bootmanager and is avaliable as an
i386 and amd64 - Version

Download Mirror:
http://debian.tu-bs.de/kanotix/

tschö,
Markus




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