On (10/06/03 02:15), Steve Grabowsku wrote: > When we last left our hero, he was trying to install Debian onto a machine > with no floppy or CD drive, but with a working Red Hat installtion.... > > Thanks to this list, I was able to get good instructions on how to do > a cross-install using a chroot jail. I tried them, and things went > well, up to the point were I actually tried to boot into the new Debian > installation. > > When I tried to boot, the only thing that happened was the computer > beeped at me and then rebooted. Obviously, something went wrong, but > I don't know what. > > I was using GRUB as the bootloader, and I pointed it at the /boot > directory on the Debian partition. It seemed to locate the kernel I > specified correctly. (Specifying it wrong gave me a different error.) > > I'm also using a mini-itx motherboard, if that makes a difference. > > Can anyone give me an idea of what went wrong? > Can you access the debian partitions? In which case you might get a clue from looking at /var/log/syslog.
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