Re: Dedicated grub2 partition

2010-10-03 Thread Goh Lip
On Monday 04,October,2010 07:48 AM, Goh Lip wrote: Barry, try this... menuentry "PCLOS live iso" { loopback loop (hd0,x)//pclinuxos-lxde-2010.1.iso linux(loop)/isolinux//vmlinuz findiso=//pclinuxos-lxde-2010.1.iso boot=isolinux quiet noeject noprompt initrd (loop)/isolinux/in

Re: Dedicated grub2 partition

2010-10-03 Thread Goh Lip
On Monday 04,October,2010 06:50 AM, Barry Jackson wrote: On 03/10/10 17:26, Goh Lip wrote: [r...@jackodesktop baz]# mount -o loop /iso/pclinuxos-lxde-2010.1.iso drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 2010-06-30 14:15 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 2010-06-30 14:31 isolinux/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Re: Dedicated grub2 partition

2010-10-03 Thread Barry Jackson
On 03/10/10 17:26, Goh Lip wrote: Barry, I do not use and I am not familiar with PCLinux, but I have a suspicion that PClinux uses 'casper'. If you can confirm this by checking the iso file by "mount -o loop xpclinus.iso /mnt/" [...@jackodesktop ~]$ su Password: [r...@jackodesktop baz]#

Re: booting from a raid1

2010-10-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:34 AM, lee wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 07:34:15AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, lee wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:49:28PM +0200, lee wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:25:19AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:50

Re: menu.lst kernel command options

2010-10-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/10/03 12:30 (GMT-0700) Charles Smith composed: > I've looked and looked in the grub manual, but I can't find a list of > parameters for - or a description of - the kernel command in the menu.lst > file. Can someone point me to a synopsis of the command and it's options? The kernel comm

Re: menu.lst kernel command options

2010-10-03 Thread Drake Donahue
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 12:30 -0700, Charles Smith wrote: > I've looked and looked in the grub manual, but I can't find a list of > parameters for - or a description of - the kernel command in the menu.lst > file. Can someone point me to a synopsis of the command and it's options? > > > >

menu.lst kernel command options

2010-10-03 Thread Charles Smith
I've looked and looked in the grub manual, but I can't find a list of parameters for - or a description of - the kernel command in the menu.lst file. Can someone point me to a synopsis of the command and it's options? ___ Help-grub mailing li

Re: Dedicated grub2 partition

2010-10-03 Thread Goh Lip
On Sunday 03,October,2010 11:35 PM, Barry Jackson wrote: Goh, I have tried all ways to boot the PCLOS iso from grub2 and it either dies with kernel panic (can't find init) or cannot find the loop file which I assume is livecd.sqfs. In the legacy case I can see it being found on sda1 (it searches

Re: Dedicated grub2 partition

2010-10-03 Thread Barry Jackson
Goh, I have tried all ways to boot the PCLOS iso from grub2 and it either dies with kernel panic (can't find init) or cannot find the loop file which I assume is livecd.sqfs. In the legacy case I can see it being found on sda1 (it searches all available drives and stops at sda1 having found it)

Re: How to restore my disk

2010-10-03 Thread Barry Jackson
On 03/10/10 13:29, Tom Davies wrote: I have a feeling that you are just in a typical case of needing to only reinstall grub2 and let it find the Operating Systems itself without forcing it into doing anything too complicated and unlikely. Good luck and regards from Tom :) _

Re: booting from a raid1

2010-10-03 Thread lee
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 07:34:15AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, lee wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:49:28PM +0200, lee wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:25:19AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:50 AM, lee wrote: > >> > > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010

How to restore my disk

2010-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) In any cases where something seriously wrong seems to have happened i try booting up from a "LiveCd" https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD Usually any distro's Cd can be used for both uses 1. As a LiveCd 2. As an installer Cd In a few cases the LiveCd might be a different download but t

Re: booting from a raid1

2010-10-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, lee wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:49:28PM +0200, lee wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:25:19AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:50 AM, lee wrote: >> > > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:22:28PM +0200, Emil Micek wrote: >> > >> On Fri, 1 Oct 201

Re: How to restore my disk

2010-10-03 Thread lee
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:40:11AM +0800, Dennis Cao wrote: > Yesterday, I used this command to correct my MBR on my working computer, > $ dd if=/somefile of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > But very unfortunately, I used a wrong file. Now when I boot my > working computer, it says: >Non-system d

Re: How to restore my disk

2010-10-03 Thread Barry Jackson
On 03/10/10 03:40, Dennis Cao wrote: > Yesterday, I used this command to correct my MBR on my working computer, > $ dd if=/somefile of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > But very unfortunately, I used a wrong file. Now when I boot my > working computer, it says: > Non-system disk or disk error >

Re: How to restore my disk

2010-10-03 Thread Jordan Uggla
2010/10/2 Dennis Cao : > Yesterday, I used this command to correct my MBR on my working computer, >$ dd if=/somefile of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > But very unfortunately, I used a wrong file. Now when I boot my > working computer, it says: > Non-system disk or disk error > replace and strik