Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-19 Thread Frank Murphy
The kernel parameter for initrd is just initrd=/boot/newinstall/root-2.4.bin but this is just doing what you have done with the grub command so I would expect anything different. Is your initrd image valid? Can you loopback mount it? I think it's valid because I was able to dd a moot

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-17 Thread Frank Murphy
What is wrong with the following setup for Grub? I always ended up with problems booting from hda5, which is not a partition on my system. (hda1 is windows, hda2 is swap, hda3 is going to be Sarge, and hda4 is Woody.) Here's my Grub config: title Woody install kernel

Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-16 Thread Frank Murphy
I wanted to install Sarge on an empty partition in my machine that I have booting with GRUB. So I decided to start by installing Woody. I tried following the Installation directions for booting from LILO, but modifying them for Grub. (I failed and ended up installing from floppies.) What

Video probs with Xpert98, Apple M1823, and Tyan S1854 Trinity 400

2001-10-30 Thread Frank Murphy
I've been having a frustrating problem with Linux and my video hardware. Namely, the video has giant margins on both sides of the display area -- between 2-3 cm. It's not so severe at the top and bottom. I don't think this is an X problem, because it seems that the video has the same problems