Booting Debian's Base through SuSE's Grub

RevX · 08-02-2004, 09:05 PM

Hey,

I wanted to give Debian a shot, so I downloaded, burned and booted the minimal installation CD. Here's a rundown on what I have on my second HDD:

/dev/hdb1 is boot for SuSE
/dev/hdb5 is root for SuSE
/dev/hdb6 I set this up as the root for the new Debian installation
/dev/hdb7 I set this up as the boot for the new Debian installation

I told Debian to setup Grub on hdb7 (or (hd1,6)). Mind you, I only installed the Base system, I still haven't downloaded and installed the entire OS. Clarification: After booting the CD I burned, setting up everything (partitioning, languages, base system, GRUB,etc.), I was directed to eject the CD and reboot. So I rebooted, but now I need to boot into this Base system I have just installed.
This is what I have set up in the SuSE Grub loader for Debian. I'm just listing the Sections, then the values I deemed neccessary:

Section Type = kernel ........ Value = (hd1,6)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 vga=0x31a splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hdb2 showopts

Section Type = initrd ........ Value = (hd1,6)/initrd

What do I need to fix here? It says it can't find any of the stuff in kernel when I try to boot it.

I'm sorry if i'm missing info or am confusing. Tell me and i will add/clarify.

Thanks in advanced,

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vectordrake · 08-03-2004, 07:10 AM

Code:

title=Debian
root (hd1,6)  #your /boot partition
kernel=(hd1,5)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 #and your extra opts
initrd=(hd1,5)/initrd.img

should boot you if you are using the symlinks Debian assigns, or

Code:

title=Debian
root(hd1,6)
kernel=(hd1,6)/vmlinuz-2.whatever root=/dev/hdb6 #etcetera
initrd=(hd1,6)/initrd.img-2.whatever

You seem close anyways. Perhaps the initrd was a typo in your /boot/grub/menu.lst

RevX · 08-03-2004, 09:41 PM

Thanks vectordrake for your help,

EDIT:

I reinstalled Debian, and figured out floppys in GRUB were marked as (fd0). So I installed it to a floppy instead

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