Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-19 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:56:14PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: 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.)

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

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-16 Thread Michael West
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: 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