Booting Caper.
I'm in a bit of a booting pickle. I've got two drives in a given box.
Their geometry looks like:
[hda]
70 Gb windoze xp partition
9.7 Gb Redhat 9 / (ext3)
0.3 Gb Redhat 9 swap
[hdb]
9.7 Gb Debian Woody / (ext2)
0.3 Gb Debian Woody swap
I want to boot the debian woody install on the second drive, and have been
with a boot floppy for a few months now. Well I got the hankering to try
this new 2.6.0 kernel, so I compiled it and figured that I could just
replace the kernel image and initrd image on the disk. Well I was wrong.
In theory this should have worked, but something
went horribly wrong, and syslinux tells me "Boot Failed: Insert another
disk and press any key to continue" while loading the kernel. So I got the
idea that I'd just boot into my redhat install and do mkbootdisk with the
kernel from the woody partition. Well the original disk reprted all kinds
of bad sectors while writing it, so I found a floppy that
works, and it still fails to boot. So then I thought I might have my first
go at using GRUB on the command line. So I boot into my Redhat 9 install
and switch to single user mode (init 1) and run grub. I set the root
partition and specify my kernel with all the right options. Then I specify
my initrd image and then run "boot" and the thing just just
quits, it doesn't boot or do anything. It just sits there. Well, now I
haven't a clue what to do as I can't boot my debian install and now I'm
sad. Any ideas to get grub working or anything to boot it?
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