Re: Satble -> Progeny + grub. Machine won't boot.
does it give an error message saying it can't find something ?
Also it should be possible to load your old kernel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>
To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 8:16 AM
Subject: Satble -> Progeny + grub. Machine won't boot.
> I have a machine which I _absolutely_ need to have working Monday. I need
> to have it have to Progeny update + 2.4 kernel. I've been fighting with
> this all weekend, having started over about a dozen times at this point in
> time :-(
>
> Here's where I am at tthe moment. I installed a minimal stable, the did
the
> Progeny update, leting it install grub.
>
> Now, the machine boots up to the grub command screen (not the grub user
> menu), and hangs.
>
> Yhe Progeny package uses initrd, which is a new thing to me.
>
> Help, please!
>
> How can I get this machine to boot from the hared disk? I do have a boot
> floppy thta will boot it.
>
> It has 3 hard drives, but I'm only dealing with the first on, which grub
> sees as hd0, and linux sees as hde. I have 2 filesystem partitons,
> partition 1 is 100M and mounts as /boot. Partiton 4 is mounted as /.
>
> Sugestions? Please.
>
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