Hi I am very grateful for the community here and I appreciate the help I
received. I will be trying to get my internet connection going when I
reboot into debian. Which brings me to my issue of the moment :(
I really have tried so many things to be able to boot from the grub SuSE
installs (version .92) I think. Currently I boot from a floopy. I read
the grub editing procedure which is made to sound simple but I can not
get debian to boot froom grub. I have edited /boot/grub/menu.1st every
way I can think of/copy from other how-tos. At best I get a filesystem
not found. I had been getting a start up and then 'kernel panic'. The
specifics, sorry, its early in the morning and I have just thrown the
damn SuSE manual against the floor, Debian 3.0 is on hdb5 my 2nd hard
drive. I know that grub numbers drives starting from 0 so hdb5 = (hd1,4). This is my current (not working) /boot/grub/menu.1st debian listing:
title debian3.0 kernel (hd1,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=dev/hdb5 initrd (hd1,4)/initrd
you need:
root (hd1,4) # note this root (above) is for grub's root kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 # debian's vmlinuz is normally in just '/'? # note this root is for debian's root. Confusing as hell isn't it! initrd /initrd.img
Bythe way, you can (from the command line) enter 'grub' then enter the above commands and use command completion (such as 'kernel /vm' press enter 2 times and grub will tell you all the files that begin with '/vm'. A good way to check out if you are entering things correctly or not.
Hi,I have tried putting /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7 for the kernel with video parameters and not. I have tried /boot/loader, chainloader with the device and +1. I did have debian install a loader to the partition just not to the MBR. I wish I could have figured this out myself. The SuSE manual makes setting up grub sound easy.
Attached is a copy of my grub 'menu.lst'. Maybe it will help as a starting point.
On my debian machine there is a example in /usr/share/doc/grub/examples.
you need to:
mkdir /boot/grub
cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/* /boot/grub. Copy them all, why not.
cp /usr/share/doc/grub/examples/menu.lst /boot /grub/menu.lst & then edit it to you needs.
google on IBM grub tutioral . It is a very good tutioral on grub.
HTH Charles
timeout 10 default 0 fallback 2 color light-green/brown blink-red/blue
# For booting GNU/Linux title Debian root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=791 initrd /initrd.img # For booting GNU/Linux title bf2.4 root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz.bf2.4 root=/dev/hda5 vga=791 # For booting GNU/Linux Rescue title Rescue root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc1 vga=791 # For booting GNU/Linux Rescue2 title Rescue2 root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/hdc1 vga=791 # For booting Mandrake title Mandrake root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 vga=791 initrd /initrd.img # For booting Windows NT or Windows95 title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd0,3) makeactive chainloader +1 # For loading DOS if Windows NT is installed # chainload /bootsect.dos # For installing GRUB into the hard disk # title Install GRUB into the hard disk # root (hd0,0) # setup (hd0) # Change the colors. #title Change the colors #color light-green/brown blink-red/blue
