David Wright composed on 2022-04-21 12:28 (UTC-0500):
> On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 05:30:31 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
>> When creating a partition with Gparted the is a box titled "Label:".
>> I was referring to the content placed there.
> There are lots of partitioners, but only one set of
On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 05:30:31 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/20/2022 05:44 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > > I have a machine set aside to test several
On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 05:30:31 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/20/2022 05:44 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > > I have a machine set aside to test several
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 05:30 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/20/2022 05:44 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > > I have a machine set aside to test several
On 04/20/2022 05:44 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I have a machine set aside to test several configurations of Debian 11.
Is there away to have the Grub Menu
On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I have a machine set aside to test several configurations of Debian 11.
> >
> > Is there away to have the Grub Menu _automatically_ display the assigned
> >
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have a machine set aside to test several configurations of Debian 11.
>
> Is there away to have the Grub Menu _automatically_ display the assigned
> partition name rather than than /dev/sdaN ?
>
I wonder whether this changes if
I have a machine set aside to test several configurations of Debian 11.
Is there away to have the Grub Menu _automatically_ display the assigned
partition name rather than than /dev/sdaN ?
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:12:33PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and
root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf
I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst
(also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from
* Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27.10.2008
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:50:04AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Just install grub on all your disks, so that your system boots
irrespective of the boot order in the bios.
Also, it is better to use UUID for specifying the root filesystem
Thomas H. George wrote:
I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and
root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf
I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst
(also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0).
The MBR is unchanged and the system still
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:50:04AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Thomas H. George wrote:
I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and
root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf
I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst
(also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I
Thomas H. George wrote:
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:50:04AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Just install grub on all your disks, so that your system boots
irrespective of the boot order in the bios.
Also, it is better to use UUID for specifying the root filesystem in
menu.lst as well as in
I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and
root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf
I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst
(also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0).
The MBR is unchanged and the system still boots with lilo.
A problem
Thomas H. George wrote:
I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and
root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf
I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst
(also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0).
The MBR is unchanged and the system still
I did Linux install on a Vista machine but wrote the grub
info to partition (and not MBR) - I want to dual boot using
grub on bootable CD.
/dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 are NTFS partitions
/dev/sd3 (Linux swap), /dev/sda4 (Linux /, all there)
I copied the grub menu.lst entry from /boot/grub/menu.lst
(on
ISHWAR RATTAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I did Linux install on a Vista machine but wrote the grub
info to partition (and not MBR) - I want to dual boot using
grub on bootable CD.
/dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 are NTFS partitions
/dev/sd3 (Linux swap), /dev/sda4 (Linux /, all there)
I copied the
Hi,
I have this in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file. (pasted below)
I'm wondering whey there is an option ro on the main
kernel line, even though the system boots normal rw?
What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my
system / mounted read only?
Thanks!
## ## End Default Options ##
michael wrote:
Hi,
I have this in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file. (pasted below)
I'm wondering whey there is an option ro on the main
kernel line, even though the system boots normal rw?
The initramfs is mounted read-only I believe, and for the initial mount,
your root filesystem is also
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote:
[...]
What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my
system / mounted read only?
when / is remounted, the flags in /etc/fstab are used, so to have /
finish up mounted ro, you have to set it up so in the fstab.
i think.
A
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:42:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote:
[...]
What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my
system / mounted read only?
when / is remounted, the flags in /etc/fstab are used, so to have /
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:30:35PM -0700, michael wrote:
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:42:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote:
[...]
What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my
system / mounted read only?
I want to use Sidux to install Debian on a Thinkpad Z61M which has
Ubuntu preinstalled (and I don't want to lose it). Question: is it safe
to let the Sidux installation rewrite grub?
More details if required: I have Ubuntu on a primary partition
/dev/sda3, with /home on a logical partition
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Anthony Campbell wrote:
I want to use Sidux to install Debian on a Thinkpad Z61M which has
Ubuntu preinstalled (and I don't want to lose it). Question: is it safe
to let the Sidux installation rewrite grub?
More details if required: I have
I set up a Debian serial console installation and am
going to add another Linux kernel to the list in
/boot/grub/menu.lst.
When looking at the boot paragraphs, I see an interesting
thing that I don't quite understand. Both the possible boot
methods have the savedefault line as
Martin McCormick wrote:
When looking at the boot paragraphs, I see an interesting
thing that I don't quite understand. Both the possible boot
methods have the savedefault line as their last line. Here they
are.
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386
root (hd0,0)
You may also need to be careful with how much space there is between the
beginning of the disk and where your sda6 partition begins. Grub uses
the BIOS for some (all?) of its disk access functionality and so it has
the same limits on disk size that the BIOS has.
I had this problem, because
Bob McGowan wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 12:11 -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
I am thinking of installing debian on partition /dev/sda6
(on a SATA hard disk). Grub menu entry for root partition:
will/should it be (hd0,5) or (sd0,5)?
It is (hd0,5). Grub uses hd for all hard drives.
You may
I am thinking of installing debian on partition /dev/sda6
(on a SATA hard disk). Grub menu entry for root partition:
will/should it be (hd0,5) or (sd0,5)?
-ishwar
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On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 12:11 -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
I am thinking of installing debian on partition /dev/sda6
(on a SATA hard disk). Grub menu entry for root partition:
will/should it be (hd0,5) or (sd0,5)?
It is (hd0,5). Grub uses hd for all hard drives.
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Having used LILO [quavering_voice] Since The Beginning,
[/quavering_voice] I have done today my first install using GRUB.
I would like the same console resolution I had with LILO with
vga=791. How is that specified in GRUB? It's not specified in
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:18:06PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
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Having used LILO [quavering_voice] Since The Beginning,
[/quavering_voice] I have done today my first install using GRUB.
I would like the same console resolution I had with LILO with
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Ah, appended directly to the boot line. Thank you.
Since LILO has a separate section called append, it wasn't clear
where or how this variable was passed to the kernel.
Many thanks, I'll give it a trySuccess!
Curt-
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Ah, appended directly to the boot line. Thank you.
Since LILO has a separate section called append, it wasn't clear
where or how this variable was passed to the kernel.
Dear: Fellow Debian Users;
First a little hardware information:
Tyan 2460 Tiger Motherboard.
actual order of physical devices.
/dev/hdc dedicated windows XP pro harddrive 40 gig.
/dev/hdd dedicated Debian Gnu/Linux harddrive 120 gig.
Grub is installed in the MBR of
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:55:13PM -0700, Linux wrote:
Could someone using Debian 3 please post the contents of
/boot/grub/menu.lst for me to take a look at?
Try the command: update-grub, it generates a menu.lst for ya.
Greetings,
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Linux wrote:
Greetings all. I've been with Linux for a few years, but trying Debian for the first time. I'm having a bit of a problem getting GRUB set up, and I know it's my fault
Could someone using Debian 3 please post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst for me to take a look at?
Thank you
book2 so the other thread isn't hijacked.
What are the pros/cons of usin Grub vs Lilo? Lilo vs Grub?
I have had great success with SystemCommander+PartitionCommander (not
free and not expensive). Tried using lilo the other day with no issues.
Tried switching over to grub with apt-get
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 09:32:53AM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
book2 so the other thread isn't hijacked.
What are the pros/cons of usin Grub vs Lilo? Lilo vs Grub?
I have had great success with SystemCommander+PartitionCommander (not
free and not expensive). Tried using lilo the other
On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 09:32:53 -0500
Hanasaki JiJi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the pros/cons of usin Grub vs Lilo? Lilo vs Grub?
I have *one* floppy disk with grub on it; I can use it to boot any Windows
machine, any Linux machine, BSD machines, or OS/2 machines. You can't do
that with
Greetings all. I've been with Linux for a few years, but trying Debian for the first
time. I'm having a bit of a problem getting GRUB set up, and I know it's my fault.
Could someone using Debian 3 please post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst for me to
take a look at?
Thank you very much.
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:55, Linux wrote:
Greetings all. I've been with Linux for a few years, but trying Debian for the
first time. I'm having a bit of a problem getting GRUB set up, and I know it's my
fault.
Could someone using Debian 3 please post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst
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also sprach Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.12.07.0046 +0100]:
vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 resides in /boot
vmlinuz resides in / but is a symlink to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
so where possibly can kernel 2.4.-18-3 come from?
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Bruce == Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The leading '/' on the vmlinuz kernel name was probably his
problem.
Bruce OK, I edited the it to:
Bruce kernel vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda4 ro
Sorry, I mis-spoke.
Bruce which results in: Error 1: Filename must be
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never have figured this out.
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From: Shyamal Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: grub question - please help
Date: 07 Dec 2002 13:37:27 -0600
Bruce == Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The leading '/' on the vmlinuz kernel name was probably
Bruce Park was roused into action on 2002-12-06 00:47 and wrote:
Hello folks,
I'm having a difficult time loading the linux partition in grub. I'm going
to do the best that I can to explain what I understand and what I don't. I'm
currenty using 2.4.-18-bf2.4 kernel. I am also using a floppy to
also sprach Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.12.06.0647 +0100]:
X because kernel 2.4.-18-3 is running instead of 2.4.18-bf2.4. When I edit
^
can you find the corresponding kernel file on the harddrive?
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Martin,
vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 resides in /boot
vmlinuz resides in / but is a symlink to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
bp
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:03:20 +0100
also sprach Bruce Park [EMAIL
David == David P James David writes:
David initrd /initrd.img-2.4.18-bf2.4
David Come to think of it, the leading '/' should probably be
David dropped for both.
The bf2.4 kernel does not use an initrd image unlike the other 2.4.18
kernel packages. So the poster does not need
From: Shyamal Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: grub question - please help
Date: 06 Dec 2002 18:33:09 -0600
David == David P James David writes:
David initrd /initrd.img-2.4.18-bf2.4
David Come to think of it, the leading '/' should probably be
David
Hello folks,
I'm having a difficult time loading the linux partition in grub. I'm going
to do the best that I can to explain what I understand and what I don't. I'm
currenty using 2.4.-18-bf2.4 kernel. I am also using a floppy to test this.
I have NOT loaded this into the MBR. Instead, the
Try line 7 without the leading /:
kernel vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda4 ro
The vmlinuz in / is just a symlink to the real file and is not needed.
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:47:48AM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
Hello folks,
I'm having a difficult time loading the linux partition in grub.
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:25:03PM -0400, Allan Wind wrote:
On 2002-05-13 23:11:43, Scott Henson wrote:
I am trying to install grub on my system so I can try out the GNU/HURD,
but I cant seem to get grub to install properly on my system. I can get
grub to boot and everything. I can even
Here's a related question: does anyone know if there is a grub graphic
available for Debian? Redhat's looks pretty cool, and Debian just has
the text menu.
The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file.
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On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 06:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a related question: does anyone know if there is a grub graphic
available for Debian? Redhat's looks pretty cool, and Debian just has
the text menu.
The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file.
Look for a thread about that
Scott Henson wrote:
I am trying to install grub on my system so I can try out the GNU/HURD,
but I cant seem to get grub to install properly on my system. I can get
grub to boot and everything. I can even boot into all my OSes, but I
cant get it to show me a menu. My menu.1st file is
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:42:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file.
I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does,
how do I enable it?
andrej
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In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote:
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:42:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file.
I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does,
how do I enable it?
The graphical stuff requires a patch that was
On Redhat, put:
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
in your /boot/grub/menu.lst and make sure splash.xpm.gz is in that
directory. The thing is, I have no idea how the xpm format works.
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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:15:37AM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote:
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:42:51PM
A certain other major distro (which I'll leave unnamed, but it starts
with an 'R' and rhymes with 'edhat') symlinks /boot/grub/menu.lst to
/boot/grub/grub.conf. I suppose it makes the file more obvious for
newbies, but it seems more stupid the longer I look at it.
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On Mon, May 13, 2002 at
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:15:37AM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote:
| On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:42:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file.
|
| I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does,
| how do I enable it?
It allows you
On 14 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote:
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote:
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:42:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file.
I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does,
how do I enable it?
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:54:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A certain other major distro (which I'll leave unnamed, but it starts
with an 'R' and rhymes with 'edhat') symlinks /boot/grub/menu.lst to
/boot/grub/grub.conf. I suppose it makes the file more obvious for
newbies, but it
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:54:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| A certain other major distro (which I'll leave unnamed, but it starts
| with an 'R' and rhymes with 'edhat') symlinks /boot/grub/menu.lst to
| /boot/grub/grub.conf. I suppose it makes the file more obvious for
| newbies, but it
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:35:37PM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file.
I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does,
how do I enable it?
The graphical stuff requires a patch that was done by somebody
at RedHat.
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:35:37PM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file.
I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does,
how do I enable it?
The graphical stuff requires
I ran into that one also. The file should be named menu.lst
(lowercase L) not menu.1st (one). Depending on font, it can look
practically the same.
Bob
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:11:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
I am trying to install grub on my system so I can try out the GNU/HURD,
but I
I am trying to install grub on my system so I can try out the GNU/HURD,
but I cant seem to get grub to install properly on my system. I can get
grub to boot and everything. I can even boot into all my OSes, but I
cant get it to show me a menu. My menu.1st file is attached. I
basically pulled
You wrote:
menu.1st
It's menu.lst, with a loweracse l, not a 1. dot ell ess tee.
Grub rocks. I use it on all my x86 systems. No more failing to boot when I
install a new kernel and forget to run lilo. Also I can try out new kernel
parameters by just typing them in at boot time from the
On 2002-05-13 23:11:43, Scott Henson wrote:
I am trying to install grub on my system so I can try out the GNU/HURD,
but I cant seem to get grub to install properly on my system. I can get
grub to boot and everything. I can even boot into all my OSes, but I
cant get it to show me a menu. My
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