On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:17:10PM -0500, +* A Death *+ wrote:
>
> Well the new installer seems to work great ... except its doing
> nothing for me since the boot loader isnt working... no matter what i
> tell grub (take in mind everytime i give it i new install path I have
> to redo the whole install (bug problem I assume)) it will not
> work.... I tried everything from (hd0) - (hd5) and /dev/sda /dev/sdb3
> and I get nothing.
What do you mean by giving grub a "new install path?" What steps have
you taken to set it up? What have you typed in at grub's command line?
Wher is grub installed? (vide post re: drive layout).
> Here is my drive configuration
>
> hda
> WD 180 > all one partition NTFS all my windows storage
>
> sda
> IBM labeled fujitsu 36gig 15,000 rpm scsi (id 0) Windows boot... main
> drive.... (original boot loaded from windows now with broken lilo from last
> debian install that went to hell...)
>
> sdb
> Wd 9gig 10,000 rpm scsi (id4)
> I believe /dev/sdb3 (6.2 gigs) is where root is.... (i booted knoppix and
^^^^^^^
Dude... get to know your drives.
> checked what drive all the system files were on)
> /dev/sdb1 (500 megs) = /var
> /dev/sdb2 (2.1 gigs) = /home
>
>
> When the current lilo boots if I boot Linux is gives me a kernal
> panix it says:
>
> Please edit "root=" option
> cant mount root drive blah blah
>
> I tried doing: Linux root=/dev/sda
> Linux root=/dev/sda1
> Linux root=/dev/sdb1
> Linux root=/dev/sdb2
> Linux root=/dev/sdb3
Are you using Lilo or Grub?? It is hard to tell since the information
you provide is so minimal. It seems that you have installed things.
Did the machine ever reboot? Do you have multiple attempted installs
with "broken" bootloaders on the MBR's of different drives?
It appears that you need to create a map of what's where on your
drives. This is for yourself as much as getting help from others.
If you Are using grub, you need to get to know it better too. I don't
know what the installer does in setting this up for you, but (what for
me was) a good tutorial on grub's use and setup came from
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php$sid=4622
> I turned up with nothing each time. I cannot stand windows... its
> awful. The whole concept just bothers me. Just happens I run lan
> parties and happen to be a gamer.
That's cool.
Look at this as an adventure where your mission is to dive into the
bowels of your computer far deeper than any ordinary Wintendo user ever
dreams of doing. :-)
Cheers,
Kenward
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