On Thursday 21 April 2005 16:52, Vickram Crishna wrote:
> At 7:53 PM +0530 4/20/05, sherlock wrote:
> >grub-install /dev/hda
>
> I am booting up right now from the Live Ubuntu CD. To anyone who
> wants to use this CD to learn or teach, I can only say I hope you
> have a lot of patience, because commands work really slowly
> (Celeron 500 with 128 MB RAM).
your cdrom would mostly be the slowpoke non-dma-spin-for-1-hr-before
-doing-anything type. And most likely 64mb of your ram is eaten up
by your on board graphics which actually requires 4mb to work wasting
60mb.so there.
>
> I can open and use the root terminal application inside Ubuntu, and
> I tried to execute the grub install from the command line, but it
> failed. After a little thought (actually quite a lot of thought) I
> tried this line
>
> grub-install /mnt/hda6/dev/hda
sudo grub-install /dev/hda
sudo nano /mnt/hda6/boot/grub/menu.lst
then add the stuff listed in the previous mail and save.
Also afaik rh9.0 uses an initrd image file so u need a line after
the kernel line
initrd=/??/initrd.img
RH9.0 users will be able to tell u the /?? directory. afaik it is
/boot
>
> since I am not actually running off an installed OS. This failed as
> well, returning the grub help screen again, this time saying the
> install_device is not recognised.
>
> >After that you only need to edit ../grub/menu.lst or cut and paste
> >the lines below into a text file called menu.lst and save it to
> > ../grub
> >
> >root (hd0,5)
> >boot=/dev/hda
> >default=0
> >timeout=10
> >
> >...etc etc
>
> I did this exactly as described. I cannot use the gredit graphic
> text editor application to write at all to the hard disks - they
> either return no action and no error message or else I am told the
> disk is read-only. I guess the graphic applications are not run
> under root, and with a Live CD there must be no way to become root
> except with the specific root terminal application. But that's not
> a complete stopper, because vi works from the root terminal
> application within Ubuntu. I have written menu.1st to /grub and
^^^^^^^^^^^
that should be menu. l as in list not 1 as in one.
u can also use ubuntu as a rescue disc. when you get the boot screen
type
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 intitrd=/initrd/initrd.img root=/dev/hda6
that should take you to the rh root partition.
And if all this is too confusing just use debian sarge.
rgds
jtd
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