booting poorman's' install via GRUB


Forum: HD Install
Topic: booting poorman's' install via GRUB
started by: pvdvyve
Posted by pvdvyve on April 15 2007,21:15
Hi, made a dual boot on an old laptop (topline amicus 3600) with MSwinxp and GNU/Linux SimplyMepis. I thought I could use the 192 MB in this machine. Some problems occured, so I began checking the RAM: the one 128 MB module seemed pretty damaged; so I had to pull it out. Plus it was a wrong type: PC 133 had to be PC100.

So I only had 64 MB left. Now I made, for the time being (untill I buy the good RAM module), a poorman's install with an older DSL.

My question now is: how do I tell my GRUB that it also must boot this DSL system as a third possibility.

I know: I can use a boot diskette, or a DSL live cd, that's not the problem; but is it possible to just do it in GRUB?

Thanks a lot in advance.
Posted by roberts on April 15 2007,22:20
Please tell us which drive which partition contains DSL
You will need more that just the single KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX which is poormans. You will also need the linux24 and minirt24.gz files with the main KNOPPIX folder.

Does your present grub use the device.map?
Are you familiar with grub's drive/partition numbering scheme?
Posted by pvdvyve on April 16 2007,09:32
Quote (roberts @ April 16 2007,00:20)
Please tell us which drive which partition contains DSL
You will need more that just the single KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX which is poormans. You will also need the linux24 and minirt24.gz files with the main KNOPPIX folder.

Does your present grub use the device.map?
Are you familiar with grub's drive/partition numbering scheme?

DSL is on /dev/hda1 or C:/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX.

So I need to copy the linux24 en minirt24.gz file in the main KNOPPIX folder?

I can change the menu.lst, but I don't know about device.map?
I know that GRUB starts numbering from 0 instead of 1 for the partitions.

On another computer I managed to have GRUB booting three operating systems.
I know you can boot a system with a GRUB floppy, and use the right commands on the commandline: telling what to boot and where the kernel and root are ...
Posted by curaga on April 16 2007,14:54
Memory shouldn't have problems like that; if it's faster mem, then it will just slow down to the other memory chips... It's just broken.

Check isolinux.cfg from the dsl cd. In particular the section below "label dsl" and just use those codes in grub (maybe some modification for grub syntax)

It will be something like this:

title DSL
root (hd0,0)
kernel /KNOPPIX/linux24 quiet ramdisk_size=80000 vga=normal
initrd /KNOPPIX/minirt24.gz
Posted by pvdvyve on April 16 2007,21:20
Quote (curaga @ April 16 2007,16:54)
Memory shouldn't have problems like that; if it's faster mem, then it will just slow down to the other memory chips... It's just broken.

Check isolinux.cfg from the dsl cd. In particular the section below "label dsl" and just use those codes in grub (maybe some modification for grub syntax)

It will be something like this:

title DSL
root (hd0,0)
kernel /KNOPPIX/linux24 quiet ramdisk_size=80000 vga=normal
initrd /KNOPPIX/minirt24.gz

Hi,

thanks very much: now I can boot from my normal GRUB to my PDSL->Poorman[] Damn Small Linux

Thanks again.
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