Re: 30-minutes with scripts [was Re: Fixing boot problems with grub]

2004-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:57:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts. But I looked like a tool having to do that. What does "30 minutes with scripts" mean? I talked about this a year ago. Several people tol

Re: Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-28 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 03:55:27PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > I'm trying to understand Grub as well. I finally found out how to make a > boot disk from the FAQ (see link). The Grub project calls this the > "legacy" version (0.9x). > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-faq.en.html > > T

30-minutes with scripts [was Re: Fixing boot problems with grub]

2004-11-28 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:57:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts. > >But I looked like a tool having to do that. > > What does "30 minutes with scripts" mean? I talked about this a year ago. Several people told me with ch

Re: Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-28 Thread Jim Hall
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: William Ballard wrote: Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd: 1) Boot from the Woody CD. 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as / 3) Execute a shell 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right places in /boot. 5) Exit the shell. 6) Run "make s

Re: Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd: 1) Boot from the Woody CD. 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as / 3) Execute a shell 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right places in /boot. 5) Exit the shell. 6) Run "make system bootable." which

Re: Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 00:24 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd: > > 1) Boot from the Woody CD. > 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as / > 3) Execute a shell > 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right > places in /boot. > 5) E

Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-27 Thread William Ballard
Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd: 1) Boot from the Woody CD. 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as / 3) Execute a shell 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right places in /boot. 5) Exit the shell. 6) Run "make system bootable." which would Lilo it up. Tod