Few questions on frugalForum: HD Install Topic: Few questions on frugal started by: cronus Posted by cronus on Nov. 03 2005,07:23
Just installed frugal! thanks to the pdf manual, the process is quite smooth.Few questions here: 1. When I startup, the system automatically boots into fluxbox, there is no chance for me to input any boot code now. It is normal? If so,is there any config file I can check and modify the boot option? 2 In the installation, I chosed hda5 as myDSL partition. But I dunno how to use it. I put samba.dsl and dsl-dpkg.dsl in /mnt/hda5, but it is not automatically installed. It works if those files are in the /cdrom directory. Then, what is the point to set a myDSL partition? Thanks ! Posted by jls legalize on Nov. 03 2005,10:06
in the partition where u frugal installed dsl there is a file boot/grub/menu.lst where u can modify the dsl boot options.In order to boot in text mode use dsl 2 boot cheat code. mydsl=hda5 must be in menu.lst if you want your optional to be loaded automatically Posted by cronus on Nov. 03 2005,13:20
1. My bootloader is lilo ( I guess it is the default one for frugal install). The menu.lst is not working. If I dont want to re-install the frugal, what should I do. 2. I just got no chance to input any cheat code, sush as "dsl 2" you mentioned. The system just book it automatically. That is why I ask. Thanks for you reply! Posted by cronus on Nov. 03 2005,13:44
I found an old session named "MYDSL=" post by Headly. He is asking exact the same question as mine and seems there is not a final solution.Just as him, I also discovered that in my cmdline, the mydsl is not assigned any partition. However, I cannot edit the /proc/cmdline even with sudo. I suppose the frugal with lilo is a bit buggy, I wiltry the grub later. Posted by captainpotato on Nov. 04 2005,15:12
You could always do what I'm doing, namely installing grub after I've installed lilo, using the script /usr/sbn/frugal_grub.sh This won't wipe your entire frugal setup (just the boot partition), but will install grub fairly painlessly for you. If your machine has anything unusual on it, you may need to edit grub to get it working okay (like I did to get my Libretto's 800x480 display set up correctly). To do this, boot the machine using your installation media method (how you installed frugal), and then mount your /boot partition, and edit the file: /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst (at least that where it was on my machine; note the repeat '/boot'). I gave up on lilo for exactly the reason that you are having issues with. Posted by muskrat on Jan. 04 2006,04:35
I just downloaded and installed DSL to my HD today, before I read all this fugal and standard issues. Standard gave me a choice of grub or lilo.I choose grub because I know and love grub. But this idea of frugal looks good, I just don't know about lilo, for one thing lilo doesn't do to good of job over writing grub some times. But besides that I would have to have grub back. So I was looking at the means to that end, and found several threads. One thread said DSL doesn't support grub install, yet here you say it does. In the documentation on the WiKi it leads you to believe you need to download a grub floppy image of some sort, but the links are all dead. I was just hopping maybe these issues I see are all been worked out in the last current release. Does any one Know? Posted by roberts on Jan. 04 2006,04:41
With Frugal we offer both Grub and Lilo, see the system menu or boot dsl with install for a text install menuboot: install I would favor grub from frugal installs because it is easy to change the grub boot menu. I would favor lilo frugal for installing to CF for custom application/appliance where you don't want easy access to changing system configuration. |