boot from hdd with grub

Forum: HD Install
Topic: boot from hdd with grub
started by: the frog

Posted by the frog on Feb. 06 2005,04:42

How do i conf Grub to boot the image i put in hdd?Will DSL even boot from Grub?

Posted by adraker on Feb. 06 2005,05:34

Suppose, for example, your HD DSL install is
on hda5.
Set your /boot/grub/menu.lst to include:

title DSL 0.9.x
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda5

Frugal can be reached with the addition of

initrd /boot/minirt24.gz

That worked for me.
I am no Grub expert, however.
Check out Saidins most excellent entry in the Docs
on the Blog site..its under Software.
He has also very helpfully posted a Grub.dsl, so you can run Grub
from your DSL HD install if you don't have it already.

You might want to try his grubbootdisk.cat and the command
line entry first, before doing anything rash.

The Grub pdf is worth a good read too.
This can be dangerous stuff.

Posted by melontree on Feb. 27 2005,15:27

"Check out Saidins most excellent entry in the Docs"
i googeld for parts of this sentence found 0
i googeld for "grub.dsl" found 0
and searched with the dsl-search for found 0

how about a link?

seems to be what a lot of people here look for
even posted in other words

Posted by adraker on Feb. 27 2005,20:11

< Booting Grub >

that should work...

Posted by green on Feb. 27 2005,20:29

I did a search for:

boot AND grub

with:
In all open forums
This month and newer

Lo and behold, lookie what turned up!!

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....08deb37 >

I then saw the Topic title for this one:

Booting a DSL poorman's with Grub or whatever......
Hmm.. methinks 'whatever' being the key word here, or at least a start, I decided to look at it.
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....nd+grub >

WOW! Did you see that?!? The word HERE highlited in BLUE denotes it as a link, as if the content of the sentence it was in was not enough. I clicked it, where did that take me you may ask???
You'll have to click to find out. See how easy this is???