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loell

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Posted: 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

AwPhuch

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Posted: Jan. 19 2006,19:11

1. You need to uncomment the initrd line

2. Better examples
http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Grub

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loell

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Posted: 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

mikshaw

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Posted: Jan. 20 2006,04:53

DSL's initrd is minirt24.gz

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

Red04Bull

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Posted: Jan. 20 2006,05:40

if ya did frugal try this

title Damn Small Linux
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda4 quite frugal
initrd /boot/minirt24.gz

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