On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 14:54 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 09:01:21 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > > > On 5/13/12, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Wow... that's a very old Mandrake release (kernel 2.4.22), and from the > >> above line, it seems that you are not using "chainloading" but directly > >> booting your old Mandrake from GRUB2. If yes, then it can be that you > >> (well, not "you" but the os-prober) missed something at the boot entry, > >> I would try to manually boot Mandrake from GRUB2 command line, test > >> some combos and when you finally get it, edit the corresponding menu > >> file from ("/etc/grub.d/*") accordingly. > >> > >> > >> > > Thank Camaleón! > > I have used multiboot in early debian distro this time it seems very > > hard > > You were facing no problems before because the two linux distributions > you had installed were using GRUB legacy. Now you have add a new player > (GRUB2) to the booting game and that's why you may need to tweak the menu > so you can boot Mandrake. > > > I don't know how to "manually boot Mandrake from GRUB2 command line" > > Neither do I but I (and "you") do know how to search, right? ;-) > > Okay, when you are in GRUB2 menu, press the "c" key to reach the command > line mode. From there you can start to speak with GRUB2 and run commands, > for example (this is just for demo purposes with a minimal set of > options, I don't know if it will work for you "as is"): > > set root=(hd0,3) > linux (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk > initrd (hd0,3)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img > boot > > Remember to press the "Enter" key after every command and (very > important!) watch for the ouput. The goal here is that GRUB2 can find the > Mandrake root partition and boot the kernel image from it. > > > Maybe I shall give up > > Oh, come on, this is linux, marine. You've been trained to be prepared to > survive these kind of situations (and even worst) :-P > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > >
Did you install grub2 on the master boot sector of your first boot drive? OR; Is this a single drive with multiple partitions? frosty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336926648.8089.4.ca...@beast.johnwfoster.com