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Kerwin

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Posted: Nov. 14 2005,15:50

Ok here we go. I'm an inch away from throwing everything out of the window

Trying to install DSL the frugal way. Impossible to boot from CD. Copied KNOPPIX on FAT partition using a network bootdisk. It worked. Could boot DSL using a floppy, it fetch the image on the fat partition. Great. But here comes my problem :

Now trying to frugal.

Using cfdisk, created 2 partition. I now have :
1st : primary hda1 FAT with KNOPPIX image , set not bootable with cfdisk.
2nd: primary hda2 Linux for the DSL boot, set bootable with cfdisk
3rd: primary hda3 Linux for stuff or swap or whatever not bootable.

I used the install script (the grub one)

It seems to go well. I answered yes to formating, it did, and copied everything. I checked hda2 and there is a boot folder, the knoppix and all.

I reboot.

Grub loading...
Error 17

HANG.

I think I'm doing it wrong with cfdisk ! I don't really know which one I should set to bootable, or primary or anyhting.

Please, please, please help me. I really need it.

clivesay

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Posted: Nov. 14 2005,16:44

I think I know the problem. You have your first partition as your fat partition and the default grub entries assume you are installing DSL on hda1.

You can change these in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. You can test it by booting and at the Grub screen choose your boot entry and hit the 'e' key to edit. Go in and change everything that's hd0,0 to hd0,1, hit enter and then 'b' to boot. That should get you up and going.

ALSO....

If you sill have the original image on the fat partition you need to add 'fromhd=/dev/hda2' to the append line in grub. When booting, Knoppix will use the first image it encounters. In this case that will be the one on the fat partition.

Good Luck

Chris

Kerwin

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Posted: Nov. 14 2005,18:10

Thank you for your answer.

Unfortunately, I don't even get the boot menu. I can still boot up DSL with the floopy thoug. So I did and there was only one line in menu.lst containing hd0,0 :

(At the end of the file, but this looks like comments. )
#title Windows
#root (hd0,0)
etc...

Kerwin

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Posted: Nov. 14 2005,18:14

BTW, browsing a bit I found out that error 17 is linked to an unrecognised file system or something of the sort. Interesting ?

AwPhuch

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Posted: Nov. 17 2005,23:38

Also you have to create a swap partition...just having a type 82 linux partition doesnt mean it will use it for swap (unless you intend to build a swapfile)

I believe in cfdisk you can change/add a type 83 (linux swap) and it will create the swap partition there

Brian
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