----- Forwarded message from mark king <marking@paradise.net.nz> ----- From: mark king <marking@paradise.net.nz> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:27:34 -0700 To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Subject: Re: Bug#268781: Installing sarge User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:36, you wrote: > mark king wrote: > > Real problems in trying to reboot when the grub got screwed. > > HOW did it "get screwed"? We cannot help solve your problem with the > minimal amount of information you provided. Thank you for replying Joey. I finally solved the problem but for your information here is what I did. I was moving a smaller 40G drive to an earlier pentium and had moved the total sarge installation to the 80Gdrive from the 40Gdrive.The 80G drive already had Windoze on it and originally had SuSE8.2 as the linux system at hda5. I tried out SuSE9.2 but found it was far too slow(even on a 900 Athlon with 512 Meg ram.) I Jigdoed sarge and set it up in the 40G drive by it self and used used grub dual boot with 80G windoze(hda1)+SuSE(hda5) and 40G with sarge as hdb1. Have I lost you yet ? Anyway I wanted to move the hdb1 40G drive to another computer so cleaned SuSE off hda5 and replaced it with sarge. I could not boot the new setup using the sarge install disk so I had to use the SuSE install disk to get access to the new sarge installation on hda5 I tried to grub-install --recheck /dev/hda and it appeared to go ok and I made sure fstab was setup correctly and that grub menulist was ok. reset everything but grub still had the original settings from when there were 2 hard drives so came up with error 22 drive not found.I could not get past this in any way as you know the kernel had not been loaded. I thought I would do an fdisk /mbr on windoze to clean everything off but this did not work and windoze would not boot either. I solved that by putting sys on a floppy and doing a sys to hda1 I prepared a boot floppy and finally got to boot of that then after trying the grub-install again I got everyting to work. It is just as well there was a floppy drive on this machine because I I was trying to setup a laptop with no drive I would be totally stuck because sarge installation disk does not have any of simply booting a system without reloading the whole thing!!! Cheers mark ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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