Grub help, dual boot dsl and ubuntu
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Topic: Grub help, dual boot dsl and ubuntu
started by: loell
Posted by loell on Jan. 19 2006,13:27
pls, help me...Its been a while, and i wanted to go back again to dsl
so i installed dsl on a free partition along with ubuntu on another partion but i can't boot on dsl. during the installation there is already an error when i tried to install grub from dsl, it says it can't mount, but i continued.
i booted again to ubuntu and compared the menu.lst of dsl and ubuntu
i kinda edited the part where dsl should boot, but it says
"unknown filesystem" when i tried to boot dsl again
this is the part where dsl should boot
title Linux (on /dev/hda4)
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda4 quiet vga=normal
#initrd /initrd.img
savedefault
boot
Posted by AwPhuch on Jan. 19 2006,19:11
1. You need to uncomment the initrd line2. Better examples
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Grub >
Brian
AwPhuch
Posted by loell on Jan. 20 2006,04:43
but dsl has no intrd.img, so wouldn't it be logical to just comment it?i edited it again with this..
title Damn Small Linux
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/linux24
makeactive
boot
but still, it won't boot
it says filesystem type unknown
Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 20 2006,04:53
DSL's initrd is minirt24.gz
Posted by Red04Bull on Jan. 20 2006,05:40
if ya did frugal try thistitle Damn Small Linux
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda4 quite frugal
initrd /boot/minirt24.gz
Posted by delaguer on Jan. 29 2006,08:46
| Quote (AwPhuch @ Jan. 19 2006,14:11) |
| 1. You need to uncomment the initrd line 2. Better examples < http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Grub > Brian AwPhuch |
that wiki really works!! thanks for pointing that out for me...
loell, just add lines from wiki to your grub menu list.. that's what i did and it worked! good luck.
Posted by delaguer on Jan. 29 2006,08:53
just wanna add something here.. what I have here are Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary and DSL 1.5 ; just in case that matters. cheers.