From: Joseph L. Hood (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Mon 05-Jan-2004 09:55:36 AM EST
If you got a GRUB prompt, you're almost there:
root (hd5,0)
kernel /boot/kernel<tab complete> root=/dev/hdf<where ever your root is>
initrd /boot/initrd<tab complete>
Then type "boot"
# root (hd5,0) means the sixth drive (hdf) and first partition
# kernel and initrd, well just that.
I think that should work.
Joe
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Scott Trudeau wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> I sent the below message regarding an install I'm working on last night
> (from an off-list email account, whoops). As an update, I've been able to
> get Debian installed on this machine using a boot floppy. I'd still
> appreciate any insight if folks have any.
>
> ==
>
> I have an old Dell Poweredge 2200 (PII-266, 200 MB RAM) I'm trying to put
> a linux distro on (I've been bouncing back and forth with Fedora Core 1
> and Debian Woody) to act as a simple file server running Samba and DHCP.
> No big deal.
>
> The machine has three disks, one SCSI disk on an Adaptec 7888 (I think)
> and two IDE drives on an added IDE board (no IDE on the motherboard as far
> as I can tell).
>
> The BIOS on this system is rudimentary, and I can't find a way to make the
> system see the the IDE drives as the primary drives (they come up as hdf
> and hdh). The SCSI disk comes up as sda, as expected.
>
> I *cannot* get this damn thing to boot from a hard disk. Obviously, it
> won't boot from the IDE drives because I cannot get them to register at
> IDE-0 (hda) -- I've tried putting the boot loader on the MBR on the first
> IDE drive and, predictably, I got a "no operating system" error.
>
> When installing Fedora, it wants to install the boot loader to the MBR on
> hdf, which doesn't work (demonstrated). I instead asked it to write it to
> the first sector of sda (which the old NT installation on this box used to
> boot from). Now when I boot, I just get "GRUB " and a blinking cursor.
> Not sure what that means. The drive has a 100 MB partition up front
> mounted as /boot. / takes up the rest of the 4 GB drive. The rest of the
> partitionss are on the other two drives (/home, /var and /tmp).
>
> Fedora won't create a boot disk (it says the kernel + necessary modules
> are impossible to fit on a floppy).
>
> I'm about to go back and try debian one more time, though the 'net install
> version I'm using doesn't install kernel 2.4 very well (seems to work ok
> for 2.2) ... and isn't exactly the distro I want ... but I might be able
> to get it to work with a boot disk (which will solve my problem in the
> short term).
>
> Any ideas on how to approach this? I really need to scare up a couple
> hundred dollars and replace this hunk of junk...
>
> Scott
>
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