Re: Booting Caper.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:34:53PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: Thanks a bunch you guys. You cleared up a lot of issues and misconceptions I had. I thought that you could boot another kernel while another was running, although in hindsight, I don't know why I thought that as the current

Re: Booting Caper.

, 2003 3:21 PM Subject: Booting Caper. I'm in a bit of a booting pickle. I've got two drives in a given box. Their geometry looks like: [hda] 70 Gb windoze xp partition 9.7 Gb Redhat 9 / (ext3) 0.3 Gb Redhat 9 swap [hdb] 9.7 Gb Debian Woody / (ext2) 0.3 Gb Debian Woody swap I want

Booting Caper.

I'm in a bit of a booting pickle. I've got two drives in a given box. Their geometry looks like: [hda] 70 Gb windoze xp partition 9.7 Gb Redhat 9 / (ext3) 0.3 Gb Redhat 9 swap [hdb] 9.7 Gb Debian Woody / (ext2) 0.3 Gb Debian Woody swap I want to boot the debian woody install on the second drive,

Re: Booting Caper.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:21:59PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: [hda] 70 Gb windoze xp partition 9.7 Gb Redhat 9 / (ext3) 0.3 Gb Redhat 9 swap [hdb] 9.7 Gb Debian Woody / (ext2) 0.3 Gb Debian Woody swap Well, now I haven't a clue what to do as I can't boot my debian install and now I'm

Re: Booting Caper.

In theory, this sounds great, but it doesn't work out so well for me. When I install GRUB to /dev/hda it posts, clears the screen, puts something like GRUB and just sits there. I also still need to boot Windoze occasionally to play games. What I'm wondering is why when I do the boot command in

Re: Booting Caper.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:20:55PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: In theory, this sounds great, but it doesn't work out so well for me. When I install GRUB to /dev/hda it posts, clears the screen, puts something like GRUB and just sits there. Well as I said you need to make sure your have a

Re: Booting Caper.

Jonathan Lassoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to boot the debian woody install on the second drive, and have been with a boot floppy for a few months now. [...] Well the original disk reprted all kinds of bad sectors while writing it, so I found a floppy that works, and it still fails to

Re: Booting Caper.

Thanks a bunch you guys. You cleared up a lot of issues and misconceptions I had. I thought that you could boot another kernel while another was running, although in hindsight, I don't know why I thought that as the current running kernel would alredy be in high memory and such... Well, I found a