I'm in a bit of a booting pickle. I've got two drives in a given box. Their geometry looks like:
[hda] 70 Gb windoze xp partition 9.7 Gb Redhat 9 / (ext3) 0.3 Gb Redhat 9 swap [hdb] 9.7 Gb Debian Woody / (ext2) 0.3 Gb Debian Woody swap I want to boot the debian woody install on the second drive, and have been with a boot floppy for a few months now. Well I got the hankering to try this new 2.6.0 kernel, so I compiled it and figured that I could just replace the kernel image and initrd image on the disk. Well I was wrong. In theory this should have worked, but something went horribly wrong, and syslinux tells me "Boot Failed: Insert another disk and press any key to continue" while loading the kernel. So I got the idea that I'd just boot into my redhat install and do mkbootdisk with the kernel from the woody partition. Well the original disk reprted all kinds of bad sectors while writing it, so I found a floppy that works, and it still fails to boot. So then I thought I might have my first go at using GRUB on the command line. So I boot into my Redhat 9 install and switch to single user mode (init 1) and run grub. I set the root partition and specify my kernel with all the right options. Then I specify my initrd image and then run "boot" and the thing just just quits, it doesn't boot or do anything. It just sits there. Well, now I haven't a clue what to do as I can't boot my debian install and now I'm sad. Any ideas to get grub working or anything to boot it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
