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Re: Booting Caper.



On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:21:59PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> [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

> 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?

Ok well first you need to get a working menu.lst file in grub.
Mine looks like:
	title	Debian bf2.4
	root	(hd0,0)
	kernel	/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi

	title	Debian 2.6.0
	root	(hd0,0)
	kernel	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0 root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi

	title	Low-level Format
	root	(hd0,3)
	chainload +1

But yours would look like:
	title	Windows
	root	(hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

	title	Redhat
	root	(hd0,1)
	kernel	/boot/name-of-redhat-kernel root=/dev/hda2

	title	Debian
	root	(hd1,0)
	kernel	/boot/name-of-debian-kernel root=/dev/hdb1

Then assuming grub is installed on redhat you would run grub
in redhat and enter the following commands:
root (hd0,1)	This tells grub that /boot/grub/ is on /dev/hda2
setup (hd0)	This tells grub to install itself on /dev/hda

Bijan
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Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>
http://www.crasseux.com

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