HD Install :: Will Frugal Install work on dual boot machine?



1) No, I think they are maintained differently - not sure if this was done on purpose, but grub's menu.lst is easier to update by yourself.
2) I thought this was a syslinux restriction... ?
3) The scripts should prompt you to format.
4) Forum pm?  Don't quote me :P

Other notes:
- the fault I usually do is forgetting to reboot after repartitioning (can cause lots of problems)
- "tohd=/dev/hda" - you need to specify the partition, not the device. (see wiki for more info)
- note that there is only one mbr per hd device... although you may install chainloaded bootloaders onto each other separate partition
On this computer, Windows 98SE is installed on /dev/hda1 , which is a FAT32 partition.

Today I made folders  KNOPPIX  and  boot  in drive C:\  , and put in them the files from the existing (it'd been on ext2 partition /dev/hda2) frugal intallation of DSL 4.2.2

Directory of C:\boot\grub

MENU     LST         3,053  01-06-08  1:34p menu.lst
.              <DIR>        01-05-08  8:50p .
..             <DIR>        01-05-08  8:50p ..
STAGE2              95,712  11-13-07  2:33p stage2
DEVICE   MAP            90  11-13-07  2:33p device.map
STAGE1                 512  11-13-07  2:33p stage1
E2FS_S~1             7,904  11-13-07  2:33p e2fs_stage1_5
FAT_ST~1             7,440  11-13-07  2:33p fat_stage1_5
FFS_ST~1             6,912  11-13-07  2:33p ffs_stage1_5
JFS_ST~1             8,640  11-13-07  2:33p jfs_stage1_5
MINIX_~1             7,104  11-13-07  2:33p minix_stage1_5
REISER~1             9,568  11-13-07  2:33p reiserfs_stage1_5
VSTAFS~1             6,560  11-13-07  2:33p vstafs_stage1_5
XFS_ST~1             9,320  11-13-07  2:33p xfs_stage1_5

(Can some of those files be omitted?)

Installed GRUB to MBR ( I think):

At a bash prompt,

I did

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grub


Then at the grub prompt, I did

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root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)


And tnen rebooted.

It seems to work fine.

Here's part of menu.lst:

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default 0
timeout 5

title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

title DSL4x
root (hd0,0)

kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 fromhd=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm dma noscsi mydsl=hdb9 frugal write

initrd /boot/minirt24.gz

Since you're on fat32, you would only need fat_stage1_5 of the stage1_5 files.
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Since you're on fat32, you would only need fat_stage1_5 of the stage1_5 files.



Thanks a lot, Curaga! It worked!

original here.