Charles Turner wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:16:31 -0400, KS wrote: > >> I need to update the instructions too as I found some typos and that I >> have a bigger 4GB USB disk to test various drivers for the MBP. > > Hi KS- > > Cleaned up my internal and got the Grub off the MBR there. (Whew!) > Followed your instructions but rEFIt doesn't boot the Linux partition. > The EFI shell is displayed and says Legacy mode boot has failed. Was > this what you experienced when you wrote this: > >>> At this stage, GRUB should present you with a choice of kernels to >>> boot. Choose the first (the other is single user rescue mode) kernel >>> and hit "Enter". You system should boot into Debian now. If it >>> doesn't, it is most likely a bad root= option in GRUB. Mine showed >>> (hd1,1) as root, which was expected as the USB disk was detected as >>> /dev/sdb. But when I use rEFIt booting, it is detected first and root >>> option of (hd0,1) is the one which works. Try it(numbers depending >>> upon your system config and hard disk partitioning) and hopefully it >>> should work out pretty well. > > ...or did you make it into Grub even though it had the bad root= ? I've > been using the i386 installer which reports the drives in the same > order OSX does, but the AMD64 installer had them swapped. I haven't > changed the Grub config file yet. > > Also, is your Grub version Grub2 or the old one? My 09012007 AMD64 > netinst uses Grub2... > > Thanks! Charles >
rEFIt was able to get me the Grub on the USB disk and I got the normal list of kernels to boot into. The root= option comes into the picture when you ask Grub to boot a particular kernel. So I had to correct that before I could boot into Debian. Grub version..... I haven't checked but I have a strong feeling that it wasn't the Grub2 version. I will check it and reply back in a little while. Oh, and the problem with root= might be solved using the UUID stuff Ubuntu uses. How does go using UUID with Grub? Don't know yet :) /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]