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mikshaw

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Posted: May 19 2005,04:11

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I don't know if the device name is necessary...it was extended from what was already in the file.

Also, i don't think my xfree line works, if i remember correctly. I never finished configuring that one. I think it should be mydsl=hda1 instead of base.

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SuperLou

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Posted: May 25 2005,21:49

I was able to boot into DSL using SU's tutorial in the talk nodes. I ran the grub.dsl but when I preform grub-install /dev/hda i get the error: :Not found or not a block device. I know absolutely nothing about grub or lilo, but grub was able to load the mydsl packages during boot that are in a differente partition than the DSL image. Is there a way for me to install the files by hand?

Thanks,
Louis

darksoul

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Posted: May 27 2005,13:57

OK, so I have managed to choose between Ubuntu and DSL at boot (HDInstall version), but now DSL won't startx. I get the message that a "peer has changed permissions" and to "check xsetup.sh" and it kicks me back to the command line.

I suspect that it might have something to do with having to use fb1024x768 boot option, but even when I add that option to grub - nothing.

I have tried root and dsl logins to no avail.

Any ideas???

Fox7777

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Posted: June 02 2005,22:22

We did the hard drive install of DSL 1.0.1 which included installing the Lilo boot loader. We would prefer to use Grub instead. We downloaded Grub from apt-get but can't find a way to make it repalce Lilo. Can this be easily done without creating problems? If not, how do we get into Lilo to edit it?

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