On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, David A. Bright wrote: > > > other O/S installed on it and I'm using GRUB. Can someone tell me (or point me > > to info about) how to boot LEAF with GRUB? My first attempts weren't > > I will mention that this is a weak request for information... you need to
Sorry you think it is weak. Perhaps this will help: I followed the instructions in the Bering User's Guide for booting from a hard disk with a few exceptions. One is that the partition used was /dev/hda3, not /dev/hda1. Also > make a habit of putting specific information like actual configuration > files (at least the relevant portions, though judging that can get you in > trouble too) and actual error messages. > > The requirements for loading LEAF are the ability to load the kernel and > initrd image, and an MSDOS or ISO9660 filesystem (depending on version) to > load packages from. I haven't used GRUB, but if it is like LILO it > doesn't know how to dig the kernel and initrd images out of those funky > partitions, which is the expertise of syslinux or isolinux. > > If you have a more appropriate filesystem for GRUB to pull these images > off of, you might try separating them from the packages on their MSDOS > partition and putting them in that location. Alternatively, you might add > support for ext2 to the initrd image (/boot/lib/modules) and pull > everything from an ext2 partition. > > I haven't done either of these things though, so if you _did_, your > too-brief report has wasted time for both of us because your problem is > more specific than this answer is. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- David A. Bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
