Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-19 Thread Frank Murphy
> The kernel parameter for initrd is just > initrd=/boot/newinstall/root-2.4.bin > but this is just doing what you have done with the grub command so > I would expect anything different. Is your initrd image valid? > Can you loopback mount it? I think it's valid because I was able to dd a moot

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-17 Thread Frank Murphy
> > What is wrong with the following setup for Grub? I always ended up with > > problems booting from hda5, which is not a partition on my system. (hda1 > > is windows, hda2 is swap, hda3 is going to be Sarge, and hda4 is Woody.) > > > > Here's my Grub config: > > > > title Woody install > > ke

Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-16 Thread Frank Murphy
I wanted to install Sarge on an empty partition in my machine that I have booting with GRUB. So I decided to start by installing Woody. I tried following the Installation directions for booting from LILO, but modifying them for Grub. (I failed and ended up installing from floppies.) What i

Video probs with Xpert98, Apple M1823, and Tyan S1854 Trinity 400

2001-10-30 Thread Frank Murphy
I've been having a frustrating problem with Linux and my video hardware. Namely, the video has giant "margins" on both sides of the display area -- between 2-3 cm. It's not so severe at the top and bottom. I don't think this is an X problem, because it seems that the video has the same problems