Re: Problem Booting After Install
> Second, unless there's some reason you enjoy getting beat up by lilo, use
> grub:
Hmm, makes me wonder why they use lilo in the installation program for
Debian.
Anyway, I'm trying to follow the instructions on the page you linked me
too. I was able to create a boot floppy but I couldn't get it to boot
anything.
The first step, fdformat /dev/fd0, worked ok. However, the next step
didn't, mjfs -t msdos /dev/fd0. I got the error message, mkfs.msdos: No
such file or directory. It then occurred to me that I already have a number
of msdos formatted floppies. I grabbed one a went onto the next step.
The next few steps are:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy worked.
mkdir -p /floppy/boot/grub
cp /usr/local/share/grub/i386-pc/stage* /floppy/boot/grub
grub
grub> root (fd0)
grub> setup (fd0)
grub> quit
These all worked fine. I then rebooted. The grub boot loader came up and
displayed a prompt and did nothing else. I typed help read through info
about a number of options and commands and tried a few. For everything it
typed I got vague error messages about the command not being correct or
invalid or something like that. What do I from here?
Once I get this figured out and working I assume I can setup the hard drive
the same way by using these commands. right?
grub
grub> root (hdb)
grub> setup (hdb)
grub> quit
Thanks,
Scott MacMaster
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin McKinley" <ronin2@bellatlantic.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 19:07:48 -0400
> "Scott MacMaster" <me@scottmacmaster.com> wrote:
>
> > Any other thoughts?
>
> I have two thoughts.
>
> First, you guys need to learn to trim posts. :)
>
> Second, unless there's some reason you enjoy getting beat up by lilo, use
> grub:
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622
>
> Kevin
>
>
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