Re: Booting Caper.
Have you read the Grub howto at
http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&re
q=viewarticle&artid=539&page=1 ?
It helped me. Maybe it'll help you.
J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Lassoff" <jlassoff@sbcglobal.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:21 PM
Subject: 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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