Re: Installing Debian from Red Hat (without a CD or floppy drive)
On (10/06/03 02:15), Steve Grabowsku wrote:
> When we last left our hero, he was trying to install Debian onto a machine
> with no floppy or CD drive, but with a working Red Hat installtion....
>
> Thanks to this list, I was able to get good instructions on how to do
> a cross-install using a chroot jail. I tried them, and things went
> well, up to the point were I actually tried to boot into the new Debian
> installation.
>
> When I tried to boot, the only thing that happened was the computer
> beeped at me and then rebooted. Obviously, something went wrong, but
> I don't know what.
>
> I was using GRUB as the bootloader, and I pointed it at the /boot
> directory on the Debian partition. It seemed to locate the kernel I
> specified correctly. (Specifying it wrong gave me a different error.)
>
> I'm also using a mini-itx motherboard, if that makes a difference.
>
> Can anyone give me an idea of what went wrong?
>
Can you access the debian partitions? In which case you might get a
clue from looking at /var/log/syslog.
HTH
Clive
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