Re: multiboot problem in squeeze
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 14:54 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2012 09:01:21 -0400, Long Wind wrote:
>
> > On 5/13/12, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Wow... that's a very old Mandrake release (kernel 2.4.22), and from the
> >> above line, it seems that you are not using "chainloading" but directly
> >> booting your old Mandrake from GRUB2. If yes, then it can be that you
> >> (well, not "you" but the os-prober) missed something at the boot entry,
> >> I would try to manually boot Mandrake from GRUB2 command line, test
> >> some combos and when you finally get it, edit the corresponding menu
> >> file from ("/etc/grub.d/*") accordingly.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Thank Camaleón!
> > I have used multiboot in early debian distro this time it seems very
> > hard
>
> You were facing no problems before because the two linux distributions
> you had installed were using GRUB legacy. Now you have add a new player
> (GRUB2) to the booting game and that's why you may need to tweak the menu
> so you can boot Mandrake.
>
> > I don't know how to "manually boot Mandrake from GRUB2 command line"
>
> Neither do I but I (and "you") do know how to search, right? ;-)
>
> Okay, when you are in GRUB2 menu, press the "c" key to reach the command
> line mode. From there you can start to speak with GRUB2 and run commands,
> for example (this is just for demo purposes with a minimal set of
> options, I don't know if it will work for you "as is"):
>
> set root=(hd0,3)
> linux (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk
> initrd (hd0,3)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img
> boot
>
> Remember to press the "Enter" key after every command and (very
> important!) watch for the ouput. The goal here is that GRUB2 can find the
> Mandrake root partition and boot the kernel image from it.
>
> > Maybe I shall give up
>
> Oh, come on, this is linux, marine. You've been trained to be prepared to
> survive these kind of situations (and even worst) :-P
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
>
>
Did you install grub2 on the master boot sector of your first boot
drive?
OR;
Is this a single drive with multiple partitions?
frosty
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