Re: How to boot alternative Debian version safely?

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (11/02/05 09:49), Anthony Campbell 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
Hi Anthony

It would be useful to see the whole of your menu.lst

Regards

Clive


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