On Fri, 30 May 2003 12:47:35 -0400 "Scott MacMaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm, makes me wonder why they use lilo in the installation program for > Debian. I wonder that as well. > The first step, fdformat /dev/fd0, worked ok. However, the next step > didn't, mjfs -t msdos /dev/fd0. I got the error message, mkfs.msdos: No > such file or directory. It then occurred to me that I already have a That's because your kernel doesn't have support for the MS-DOS file system. "mkfs -t vfat /dev/fd0" works though, and that's the kind of DOS floppies we're likely to have laying around anyway. > These all worked fine. I then rebooted. The grub boot loader came up and > displayed a prompt and did nothing else. I typed help read through info > about a number of options and commands and tried a few. For everything it > typed I got vague error messages about the command not being correct or > invalid or something like that. What do I from here? Well, I don't know another way to say this: read the article and follow along, trying what it says. You do need to adapt the instructions in the article to your own partition/OS setup. For example if the article says do "root (hd0,1)" but your Debian partition is /dev/hda1, you need to do "root (hd0,0) instead. Where the article says, "kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=791" but your kernel is /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 and you don't have framebuffer support, you need to modify the command accordingly. > Once I get this figured out and working I assume I can setup the hard > drive the same way by using these commands. right? > grub > grub> root (hdb) > grub> setup (hdb) > grub> quit Nope. If you want to use grub to boot your machine it needs to be installed in the MBR of hda. Note that Debian provides a utility to help with this, see "grub-install". Even after grub is installed, you won't get more than a command prompt until you provide a boot menu info file. Debian provides a utility for this, too: "update-grub". Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
