Re: Grub, now booting debian from grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
GRUB version 0.92 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
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grub> find /boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20
(hd1,1)
grub>
grub> find /boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20
(hd1,1)
grub>
find /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7
(hd1,4)
grub>
grub>
find /boot/initrd-2.4.18-k7
Error 15: File not found
grub>
find /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7
(hd1,4)
grub>
grub>
find vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7
Error 15: File not found
grub>
find /vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7
Error 15: File not found
grub>
find /initrd-2.4.18-k7
Error 15: File not found
grub>
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Oct 9 22:07:15 2003
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/message
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
title linux
kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 hdd=ide-scsi vga=791
initrd (hd0,4)/initrd
title floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1
title failsafe
kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda7 ide=nodma apm=off
acpi=off vga=normal nosmp maxcpus=0 disableapic 3
initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.shipped
title windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
makeactive
title debian3.0
root (hd1,4)
kernel (hd1,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7 root=/dev/hdb5 hdd=ide-scsi
vga=791
initrd (hd1,4)/boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7
title slackware9.0
root (hd1,1)
kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20 root=/dev/hdb2 hdd=ide-scsi
vga=791
initrd (hd1,1)/usr/man/man4/initrd.4.gz
Hi, And thanks for the questions and grub commands. The above setting
now boots debian. Grub needed the correct file and it was
/boot/initrd.img-xxx. I don't get a start up log while debian is booting
and I don't understand that. Slackware doesn't seem to have a initrd. I
did a whereis but only got the /usr/man/man4/initrd.4.gz file which I
tried but loading failed with a kernel panic. As for the floppy entry in
grub it was automatically put in by SuSE's installer. The floppy will
boot any of the 3 linuxes from the grub floppy listing, but it does say
something like entire device is fat.I guess I could take out the
chainloader +1 entry? And windows does boot with the entry I posted
previously and haven't changed. BTW /sbin/grub = no such file or
directory. Thanks again. I'll ask the slack board where slack's initrd is.
> >
> > title floppy
> > root (fd0)
> > chainloader +1
>
> This looks like you are telling the grub that the grub boot floppy
> also includes the window bootloader.
>
> >
> > title failsafe
> > kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda7 ide=nodma apm=off
> > acpi=off vga=normal nosmp maxcpus=0 disableapic 3
> > initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.shipped
> >
> > title windows
> > root (hd0,0)
> > chainloader (hd0,0)+1
> > makeactive
>
> If this doesn't boot windows, try:
> root (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainload +1
>
> >
> > title debian3.0
> > root (hd1,4)
> > kernel (hd1,4)/vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7 root=/dev/hdb5 hdd=ide-scsi
vga> =791
> > initrd (hd1,5)/initrd-2.4.18-k7
> ^--------------^ should this be
initrd.img-2.4.18-k7?
>
> 'initrd (hd1,5)' indicates your kernel image is in a different
> partition than it's initrd.img.
>
> Need a little more info. Please open a terminal, su to root, and then
> run /sbin/grub.
>
> grub> find /vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7
> grub> find /initrd-2.4.18-k7
> grub> find /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7
> grub> find /boot/initrd-2.4.18-k7
>
> and post the results back to the list.
>
> --
> Jerome
>
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