HD Install :: Boot Sequence Does Not Complete

Oh. That clears me wondering why would you use lilo. Well, a boot partition works around that; or using the official DSL grub boot floppy, which includes the kernel and initrd on itself, so grub's limitations don't matter.

I'm thinking that this should be possible with grub, I've tried grub-0.95, 0.97, 1.91 and legacy (so far I cannot compile grub2) and all seem to be unable to find the boot partition.

I created the grub boot floppy like this:

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$ cd /opt/grub/lib/grub/i386-pc
$ sudo dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 0.612537 seconds (836 bytes/sec)
$ sudo dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
203+1 records in
203+1 records out
104082 bytes transferred in 3.849574 seconds (27037 bytes/sec)

NB: I could not read the resulting floppy, but it boots

My lilo conf looks like this:

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lba32 #enable large disk support
timeout=30 #wait 3 seconds before auto-booting
vga=791
boot=/dev/sdb3 #put Lilo boot loader in partition of target disk
root=/dev/sdb3 #set root to be partition of target disk
image=/boot/linux24
label=DSL
initrd=/boot/minirt24.gz
read-only
APPEND="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi nomce nodma quiet frugal BOOT_IMAGE=/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX fromhd=/dev/sdb3 restore=sdb4 toram alsa syslog mydsl=sdb4"

At the grub boot prompt, I tried this:

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> root (hd1,2)
error 22: no such partition
> rootnoverify hd(1,2)
> kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/sdb3
error 22: no such partition

- am I making a mistake somewhere?

If I get what curaga is getting at, the boot partition would be of a small size being the very first (i.e. sdb1) just to hold the kernels and inirtd's so that it may get around size limitations. I'm assuming you're only using the grub floppy disk to install the bootloader here, and not act as a DSL bootfloppy.

Not sure what you really want to do now, but you could also look into rescue disks.

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Not sure what you really want to do now, but you could also look into rescue disks.

- all I want to do is to boot the dsl image on /mnt/sdb3 from a grub boot floppy so that I can pass dsl boot codes to it (eg base norestore) since I cannot from lilo.

I can already use a dsl boot floppy and boot "fromusb" to be able to access the frugal hd install and fix things, but it's very long on this old machine.

Anyway, progress is being made - I managed to compile grub2 (by replacing bison-1.875 in compile-3.3.5 with bison-2.15) and device.map at least mentions /dev/sdb which I never got in grub1.

Oh. I hadn't noticed DSL4 does not have a grub boot floppy. DSL 3 has. One could be manually made..

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