Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-31 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:34:53PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > Thanks a bunch you guys. You cleared up a lot of issues and misconceptions > I had. I thought that you could boot another kernel while another was > running, although in hindsight, I don't know why I thought that as the > current r

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-30 Thread john
Have you read the Grub howto at http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&re q=viewarticle&artid=539&page=1 ? It helped me. Maybe it'll help you. J - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Lassoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, D

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
Thanks a bunch you guys. You cleared up a lot of issues and misconceptions I had. I thought that you could boot another kernel while another was running, although in hindsight, I don't know why I thought that as the current running kernel would alredy be in high memory and such... Well, I found a

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
"Jonathan Lassoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 the original disk reprted all kinds of bad sectors while > writing it, so I found a floppy that works, and it still fa

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:20:55PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > In theory, this sounds great, but it doesn't work out so well for me. When > I install GRUB to /dev/hda it posts, clears the screen, puts something > like "GRUB" and just sits there. Well as I said you need to make sure your have

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
In theory, this sounds great, but it doesn't work out so well for me. When I install GRUB to /dev/hda it posts, clears the screen, puts something like "GRUB" and just sits there. I also still need to boot Windoze occasionally to play games. What I'm wondering is why when I do the "boot" command in

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:21:59PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > [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 > Well, now I haven't a clue what to do as I can't boot my debian install > and