Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-02-01 Thread Josh
--- Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...(if you follow me)... yep, i follow. thank you for the alternative, i'll probably try it out sometime, just to satisfy my curiosity. i've set it up how i want it for right now, though. grub is on hdb's MBR and BIOS drive priority is to check hdb fi

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-02-01 Thread Alan Lord
Josh wrote: > One thing I noticed in doing this, was that my hard drives were swapped in grub, but not once the LFS Operating System took over. What I mean by that is that where LFS's hda was grub's (hd0) and hdb was grub's (hd1), after I changed the boot priority in my BIOS, hda (the windows d

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Josh
--- Georg Schinnerl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > then use the following command to write this bootsector into a file > "dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=/root/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1" > > copy the file "boot.lnx" to your windows partition and add a line > similar to the following to your "boot.ini" that's

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Subhash Chandra
> > hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this > > mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely > > preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline > > if something goes wrong. The next task at hand is to figure out how to > > t

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/30/06, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this > mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely > preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline > if something goes wrong. The next task

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Georg Schinnerl
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- > Von: Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: "lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org" > Betreff: first successful boot with GRUB floppy > Datum: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:44:16 -0800 (PST) > > As the title states, I successfully booted my shin

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Josh wrote: > hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this > mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely > preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline > if something goes wrong. The next task at hand is to figure out how to >

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Alan Lord
Josh wrote: As the title states, I successfully booted my shiny new LFS-6.1.1 system with the aid of the grub rescue disk! You should've seen the grin on my face when it happened... priceless. The next task at hand is to figure out how to tweak the windows boot.ini file to default boot my

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Josh wrote these words on 01/30/06 21:44 CST: > *please note -- This email assumes it is OK to post a very happy > "success story" instead of a question asking for support. If it is not > OK, please disregard this email. I was happy enough that I called my > brother, so I thought I would also ma

first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-30 Thread Josh
As the title states, I successfully booted my shiny new LFS-6.1.1 system with the aid of the grub rescue disk! You should've seen the grin on my face when it happened... priceless. It's a "by the book" system with almost no variations except for booting. /boot is hdb1, swap is hdb2, and / is hdb