Re: Booting Caper.
Thanks a bunch you guys. You cleared up a lot of issues and misconceptions
I had. I thought that you could boot another kernel while another was
running, although in hindsight, I don't know why I thought that as the
current running kernel would alredy be in high memory and such...
Well, I found a good floppy and installed a syslinux image by hand and
copied the proper kernel and initrd image over and it boots now. But I
still have one problem. I am trying to boot the new stable 2.6.0 kernel
and it say s some error and that I need to pass an init= option to the
kernel. I've never gotten this before in 2.4 kernels. What is the init
option and how should I use it?
> "Jonathan Lassoff" <jlassoff@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>> 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 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.
>
> How are you making the boot floppy? I'd probably try to do this sort
> of thing by using a real bootloader...
>
>> 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.
>
> Well, yeah, you've already booted the machine, the command-line grub
> isn't going to magically reboot your running kernel. You need to
> install grub on to some media (your hard disk or your known-good
> floppy) and boot from that, then this incantation would work. Read
> the GRUB manual.
>
> (I find a GRUB floppy to be a great rescue tool, BTW: if you have some
> clue of what's on the machine, you can use it to boot even if your MBR
> is broken, you can boot from partitions that the local boot loader
> doesn't know about, and if your system is really hosed, you can
> connect a null-modem cable to another machine, tell GRUB to use a
> serial console, and start catting files from the GRUB prompt. Not
> that I've had flaky hardware that requires this or anything. :-)
>
> ....so my recommendation would be to follow the procedure in the GRUB
> manual, and make a GRUB floppy, and either use that to boot your
> Debian partition or use it to install GRUB into your MBR.
>
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