Other Help Topics :: Frugal install to SD of Asus eee

I recently purchased an Asus Eee and have been attempting to do a frugal install of dsl 4.2.5 onto a 4gb SD card which I will keep in the SD slot to boot from. I would like to keep Xandros on the SSD for now and by selecting Esc when booting I can choose to boot from the SD card. I setup two partitions (sda1 75mb, bootable for image) (sda2 for mydsl) and following the instructions from
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-26-8732-0.html

It seems to set up fine, but when rebooting and choosing my SD card to boot from I am encountered with only blinking cursor. My menu.lst looks as I would expect it to with root=/dev/sda1 with sda2 for mydsl and such. Due I need to have grub installed to sda for some reason? I would really like to get this to work, but do not have a great understanding of this. Any help would be appreciated.

Yes, your boot device needs to have a bootloader installed, the bios only chainloads it. If you followed that post, isn't grub already there?

Yes, grub is installed on sda1 which is the first partition on my SD card. So when booting I choose to boot from my SD card as opposed to the SSD with Xandros on it. Unfortunately it seems as though it is not finding grub as I am not presented with any options, just a cursor. Not sure why it is not picking it up.

Can you boot the SD card in Qemu? (qemu -hda /dev/sda)

Sorry, I have been away on vacation...

This may be a stupid question, but how do I use qemu? I tried booting with the live cd and entering this command. I also tried this from within Xandros, but I just get command not found.

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