I checked my GMail-account today. There it was: Another invitation? I am not sure how I deserve this but again I’ll look for a worthy candidate.
promise! :-)
Daily Archive for June 14th, 2004
This took some time. In the end setting up grub is not that difficult, but there is no site with an easy-to-understand-explanation. For now I’ll just post what I did, but maybe later I’ll write a little more:
- Boot from SystemRescueCD
- Mount debian-partition
- Copy grub from SystemRescueCD to debian-partition
- Run “
grub --no-floppy“ - enter:
root (hd0,2) - enter:
setup (hdo) - Reboot into debian
- change grub.conf (menu.lst should link to this file) into:
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#
# jeck’s boot menu configuration file
#
# Boot automatically after a minute.
timeout 3
# By default, boot the second entry.
default 1
# Fallback to the first entry.
fallback 0
title Windows Xp
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
# For booting Linux
title Debian
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3
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Helpful Links:
http://www.linuxforums.org/tut…wto/Multiboot-with-GRUB-2.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/gr…l#Installing%20GRUB%20natively
More to come…
Edited on Jun 14th 2004, 14:03 by jeck
First stage of installazion went smooth. The only things that may have put off a ‘normal’ user where: You have to know two things about your network card, more precisely the kind of chipset and that your LAN-device is called eth0.
It only became different after that: After the first stage Debian let’s you choose wether it should rewrite the boot block, create a boot disc or do something yourself. Since there is no floppy (this would be a solution considered unpractical anyways) and I want to keep Xp I have to install a boot loader.
Since - naturally - this should be open source to and I have not so fond memorys if LILO I decided to go for GRUB. One geek once said: The more cryptic something is, the more I like it. He liked GRUB very much.
More to come…
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