Trying to boot after Debian installer ran
I have run the debian installer, installed a base system, chose the
default LILO install choice. The installer did NOT wright (I watched
the drive light to verify this, it SHOULD have written) to the disk,
system re-booted. I have mounted the Debian partitions to examine
them. Debian root = hdb6 with /boot as a sub dir. Here is the contents
of Debian /boot:
user1@DAM-LN:/mnt/Debianboot/boot$ ls -l
total 4568
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 518609 Oct 3 23:59
System.map-2.4.22-1-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 14 09:46 boot.0340
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42261 Sep 27 03:17 config-2.4.22-1-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3264512 Dec 14 09:45
initrd.img-2.4.22-1-386
-rw------- 1 root root 53760 Dec 14 09:46 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 769886 Oct 3 23:59 vmlinuz-2.4.22-1-386
Here is my grub menu.lst:
title Libranet GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.23 NEW
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.23 root=/dev/hda6 ro hdc=scsi hdd=scsi
vga=792
savedefault
boot
title Libranet GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.23 (single user mode)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.23 root=/dev/hda6 ro hdc=scsi hdd=scsi
single
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.22-1-386
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1-386 root=/dev/hdb6 ro hdc=scsi
hdd=scsi
savedefault
boot
The above Debain GNU/Linux entry will boot, but stops with an error
message "cant find image, please amend root= entry to the correct root
image" or words to that effect. Here is the question:
Given the above, how can I get Debian to boot? cd into the Debain /
(while running Libranet) and run lilo? Modify in some unknown to me way
the above grub entry?
I have removed the hdc=scsi entries. I have changed values for (hd1,5)
and /dev/hdb6 on the chance that my understanding was flawed. I have
found a different source for the iso image and downloaded/burned/loaded
it.
The Installer worked very well, except it seems to fail in allowing me
access to my new shiny base system!!! Talk about security! The distro
was sarge, ext3 was chosen for file systems, hdb6 /, hdb7 /home, hdb5
/var (as reiserfs). All partitions seem written to with out errors (as
checked out from Libranet).
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Damon L. Chesser
dchesser@bigfoot.com
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