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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
