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> debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2003 : Issue 4031
>
> Today's Topics:
> Re: Changing bootloader and FS quest [ Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.ne ]
> problems booting with grub [ Grant Bierman <gbierman@mochamail.c ]
> Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 in Debian [ Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> ]
> How that dependency turned up? [ Shaul Karl <shaulk@actcom.net.il> ]
> Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 in Debian [ Axel Burwitz <axel.burwitz@web.de> ]
> Re: Bootable Debian ISO [ Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk ]
> Re: Howto? ATI Radeon on Sarge [ Angus D Madden <ii@took.ekilat.com> ]
> Re: problems booting with grub [ Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my> ]
> PPPoE server settings [ "Evgeny Boksha" <riksha@mail.ru> ]
> Re: (no subject) [ Ken Gilmour <ken@sportsmail.ac> ]
> Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian [ "Martin J Hooper" <martinjh@blueyon ]
> Re: Debian Certified Laptops! [ "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblu ]
> Re: Gnome-Session ? what's needed fo [ =?iso-8859-1?q?Leandro_Guimar=E3es_ ]
> Re: Challenge to the debian communit [ =?iso-8859-1?q?Leandro_Guimar=E3es_ ]
> Re: (no subject) [ Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk ]
>
> From: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:17 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Changing bootloader and FS question
>
> As someone else pointed out, "apt-get install grub" will install the
> grub package. To install it in the mbr, your run "grub-install /dev/hda"
> (assuming you are installing it on /dev/hda). However, once you do this,
> when you go to reboot, you'll simply be presented with a prompt that
> says: "grub>". You can use that to boot Linux (or another OS) if you
> know what to type at the prompt. What you should do is construct a file
> /boot/grub/menu.lst, which has everything you need in it - then you
> won't have to type anything, just choose from a menu. Below I've
> included what I have in that file - yours will no doubt differ depending
> on what's installed in your partitions.
>
> You ought to read this primer:
> http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue85/4622.html
>
> After you've digested that, download a grub boot floppy image and
> experiment with that before you actually install to the hard drive.
>
> regards,
> Robert
>
> # /boot/grub/menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
> # -------------------- grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
> # grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
> # and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.
>
> ## default num
> # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from
> # 0, and the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
> #
> # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default
> # entry is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
> default 0
>
> ## timeout sec
> # Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the
> # default entry(normally the first entry defined).
> timeout 30
>
> # Pretty colours
> color cyan/blue white/blue
>
> # Display a splashscreen
> splashimage (hd0,4)/boot/splash.xpm.gz
> foreground bbbbbb
> background 000000
>
> ## password ['--md5'] passwd
> # If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive
> # editing control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries
> # protected by the command 'lock'
> # e.g. password topsecret
> # password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
> # password topsecret
>
> #
> # examples
> #
> # title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
> # root (hd0,0)
> # makeactive
> # chainloader +1
> #
> # title Linux
> # root (hd0,1)
> # kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
> #
>
> #
> # Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST
>
> ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
> ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
> ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default optons below
>
> ## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs
>
> ## ## Start Default Options ##
> ## default kernel options
> ## default kernel options for automagic boot options
> ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
> # kopt=root=/dev/hda5 ro hdc=scsi hdd=scsi
>
> ## default grub root device
> ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
> # groot=(hd0,4)
>
> ## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
> ## e.g. alternative=true
> ## alternative=false
> # alternative=true
>
> ## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
> ## e.g. lockalternative=true
> ## lockalternative=false
> # lockalternative=false
>
> ## altoption boot targets option
> ## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
> ## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
> ## altoptions=(recovery mode) single
> # altoptions=(single user mode) single
>
> ## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
> ## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
> ## alternative kernel options
> ## e.g. howmany=all
> ## howmany=7
> # howmany=all
>
> ## ## End Default Options ##
>
> title Knoppix 3.3
> root (hd0,7)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 ro hdc=scsi hdd=scsi
> initrd /boot/initrd.gz
> savedefault
> boot
>
> title SUSE
> root (hd0,2)
> kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=silent
> desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts
> initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd
> boot
>
> title Slackware
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 ro hdc=scsi hdd=scsi apm=power-off
> boot
>
> title Windows
> root (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
>
> title Libranet GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.21 (single user mode)
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21 root=/dev/hda5 ro hdc=scsi hdd=scsi single
> savedefault
> boot
>
> ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
>
> title Memory Test
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /boot/memtest86.bin
>
> From: Grant Bierman <gbierman@mochamail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:04 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: problems booting with grub
>
> After re-installing debian via knoppix on my parents computer, and
> dist-updating. I installed grub again and at the time thought it was all
> configured right.
>
>
> But when it once re-started after the storm pass through the other night
> what was seen on the screen was error 15 after stage 1.5. *sigh*
>
> So I pulled out the knoppix cd and check this and that and fix the grub
> menu.lst. And rebooted, no go so I then made a grub-floppy only to get
> read error at stage two...
>
> Now I'm not sure what to try next, boot is on /dev/hda1, root is at
> /dev/hda3 and it did boot with lilo. The only other boot related change
> I made when I installed grub was apt installing kernel 2.6.0 test 9.
>
> Any suggestions?
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