Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after installation.

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Barry,

Thanks for your advice. 

You come in the right time, saving me from prolonged testing

This sequence is for my setup; you'll have to pass options to
grub relative to where your stuff is:
     
 

root (hd1,0)
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7  root=/dev/hdb3
initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7
boot
   

grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7  root=/dev/hde3
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x10b2ff]
grub> initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7
[Linux-initrd @ 0x17edf000, 0x10c8ff bytes]
OS starts.

Lot of thanks

B.R.
Stephen
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:54:51 +0800
From: Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after
   

installation.  
 

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hi Collins,

- snip -

   

Problme now solved.  I can mount another floppy created on
       

another Linux 
 

box with '/mnt/floppy'  There is nothing wrong on the
       

floppy nor its 
 

drive, only impossible to read bootdisk.

I tried following command without success

# mount /mnt/floppy
# mount -t ext3 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Can you advise how to read a bootdisk.  Thanks

       

Haven't a clue!  I'm sure that's why it won't mount, since
     

there is no file
 

system on the floppy.  I'm not sure what you want to do with
     

it, but you could
 

use dd to copy it.

     

I tested the bootdisk.  It prompted "grub>" not booting the
   

system 
 

automatically.  I pressed TAB to view the commands there and
   

tried 
 

several of them such "boot", etc.  But I could not make the
   

PC booted.  
 

Therefore I tried to mount and read the bootdisk to see
   

whether having a 
 

detail instruction there.

B.R.
Stephen
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