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^thehatsrule^ Offline

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Posted: Oct. 24 2006,20:34

For grub,
I'm going to assume you want stage 1 (mbr stuff) for hda and stage 2 to hdb1.

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# grub-install /dev/hda --root-directoy=/mnt/hdb1

Since the stuff oringally installed everything to hdb, you should still have device.map and menu.lst in hdb1's boot dir (no need to touch these) so I think all you have to do is reboot now.

Alternatively, you can physically switch the cable positions (reverse the current positions). This is assuming the DSL drive does not contain _any_ fat type partitions, or else win98/msdos will mess up.

larkl

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Posted: Oct. 29 2006,13:27

The only way that I could get a similar install to work was to physically move the working WXX drive to the slave position, then install DSL to the now master drive. Then change grub to make this work, ala

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map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)

Doesn't mean that you can't get it to work some other way, of course.

FunGogh

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Posted: Nov. 03 2006,05:36

Hi,

I had the same problem ... after Frugal Install to hdb. DSL was installed but my previously installed Grub was not overwritten.

The DSL Grub was installed on hdb ... (/boot/grub/menu.lst)
So, I just went ahead, opened the DSL menu.lst file ... I think it was Beaver ...
copied the following lines

title DSL
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hdb5 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm dma toram noscsi frugal
initrd /boot/minirt24.gz

and pasted it into the previous "menu.lst"

I have to say, I had to add the line "root (hd1,4), it was not automaticly created, and it may have to be different in your case. But after that I could boot into DSL.

PS: hd1 = hdb (use hd2 for hdc ... and so on)
the 4 after the "," stands for hdb"5" ... so, if your DSL is on hdb1, you have to use (hd1,0)

hope that helps

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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,02:07

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Oct. 24 2006,13:34)

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# grub-install /dev/hda --root-directoy=/mnt/hdb1

Does this command work for you linuxlizard? It looks right to me, so I think it should.

If you need more detailed instructions:

1) Boot up LiveCD. Use cheatcode "2" (without quotes)
2) run hats's command.
3) reboot.

Lark1's suggestion might work too, but it is more work. FunGough's won't work for you because you don't have a "previous" menu.lst. You have Win98 in that spot.

Please answer back. I hate it when people get their problem solved and then stop posting, rather than saying "it works thank you!" On the other hand, sorry if the users of this forum couldn't help you enough to get it solved, and you gave up.

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