Re: Can't boot into Lenny from Etch partition

2009-06-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >> On my PC I have many different partitions. With Etch, I've never had >> problems installing the Grub boot loader to a partition at my pleasure and >> not to the master boot record. >> >> Today I installed Lenny for the first time, from a DVD set bought from an >> offici

Re: Can't boot into Lenny from Etch partition

2009-06-04 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Wed,03.Jun.09, 22:56:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Fantastic. At boot time, I pressed `c' and got a grub command line. Then I >> entered those commands, the same written in menu.lst: root..., >> kernel... etcetera. And... after the `kernel' line and `enter', grub >> produced the same error:

Re: Can't boot into Lenny from Etch partition

2009-06-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,03.Jun.09, 22:56:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Fantastic. At boot time, I pressed `c' and got a grub command line. Then I > entered those commands, the same written in menu.lst: root..., > kernel... etcetera. And... after the `kernel' line and `enter', grub produced > the same error: >

Re: Can't boot into Lenny from Etch partition

2009-06-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Mon,01.Jun.09, 22:19:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> [...] I can't boot into my Lenny partition >> from my Etch partition, whose Grub boot loader is installed to the mbr. Andrei Popescu writes: > Did you add an entry for Lenny in the menu.lst of Etch? If you have grub > installed on the Le

Re: Can't boot into Lenny from Etch partition

2009-06-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,03.Jun.09, 13:29:15, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Ok, next I'd try booting "by hand". That is, instead of letting grub > > (try to) do it's magic get a grub command line (I think you need to > > press 'c') and run those commands by hand. grub's tab-completion can > > help too. > > What co

Re: Can't boot into Lenny from Etch partition

2009-06-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Mon,01.Jun.09, 22:19:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> [...] I can't boot into my Lenny partition >> from my Etch partition, whose Grub boot loader is installed to the mbr. Andrei Popescu writes: > Did you add an entry for Lenny in the menu.lst of Etch? If you have grub > installed on the Le