On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Bob Miller wrote: > Allen Brown wrote: > > > Booting into RedHat7.3 works fine. > > Booting into Debian Sarge fails! The entry is there but the > > kernel panics saying there is something wrong with the root > > partition /dev/hda15. > > I am going to guess that your kernel uses an initrd, and that your > grub.conf doesn't correctly load it. Ensure that your initrd image is > on the /boot partition and that your grub.conf gives the right path > relative to /boot. Also make sure it's the RIGHT initrd image -- it's > full of drivers and other closely-kernel-coupled things.
That was it! Its a rather complicated situation. Recall that I have two boot options: Boot from floppy using new grub and whatever config is on that floppy. Frustrating since it isn't a file system and I don't know how to see what is there. Boot from the hard drive using the old grub. It was the latter that used the grub configuration file menu.lst AKA grub.conf. Since the original entries from RedHat7.3 didn't use the initrd command, I wasn't sure that version of grub supported it. So when I copied the grub entries across I commented those lines out. (Bear in mind that the new grub file is quite different, including also lines with "savedefault" and "boot". I have left those commented still.) > Of course, it could be something else entirely. > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> On the nose. Thank you! By the way, this also confirms my suspicion: there were two problems. Recall that those floppys I wrote would not even load to the point of giving me a grub prompt. So there is something wrong there. And that is why I will not be upgrading my version of grub any time soon. If I can't boot from a new floppy, it is likely that the same image written to my hard drive would render my system unbootable from the hard drive. It works now. I'm leaving it alone. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there another word for synonym? --- George Carlin _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
