khurdp
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Posted: Oct. 22 2005,22:38 |
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Well this is how I accomplised 'Booting fallback systems':
On my Fedora core 2 system:
I downloaded grub-0.97.tar.gz from http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/, unzipped, untarred and followed the INSTALL - compile and make to have the 0.97 version compiled in the current directory. Used the newly compiled grub ( ./grub ) to install on my DSL harddisk(physically removed) connected via USB.
Booting from the newly installed grub didn't work because I didn't copy the stage1, stage2 & e2fs_stage1_5 over to the /boot/grub folder (I had to manually do this since I didn't do a grub-install). I also copied the grub-set-default script from the utils folder so my DSL now uses grub 0.97 to boot with 'savedefault', 'fallback', default saved' working per the manual and the 'grub-set-default' sets the default to 0 from opt/bootlocal.sh too.
I need the fallback because this computer I have DSL installed (frugal) doesn't have a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I ssh & vnc into it. if i screw up something I can ssh into it and maybe fix it. I can mount its harddisk via USB on my other machine but that is a hassle.
-Prasad
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