Re: How to boot alternative Debian version safely?

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 11 Feb 2005, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (11/02/05 08:16), Andreas Klein wrote:
> > > 
> > > So why does the system boot?
> > 
> > As I can see /dev/hda13(hd0,12) is your /boot Partition and /dev/hda14(hd0,13) is /.
> > 
> > That mean if you want the Path in your /boot Partitions you must skip the /boot in the Path.
> > 
> > Examble:
> > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-9-amd64-k8 => /vmlinuz-2.6.10-9-amd64-k8
> > 
> > Simple isn't it?
> D'oh ...of course ;)  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Clive
> 

Thanks to all for replies. I've now managed to get Grub to access the
partition but I get the following kernel error:

	Cannot open root device "hda7" or unknown block (0,0)

My Grub entry is as follows:

	
title 		Debian test system, kernel 2.6.8-1-386
root       	(hd0,6)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda7 ro
savedefault
boot

Anyone spot the error here?

Anthony

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