really got mad
now i have a system at home here in focsani romania
i got with my family in these holidays i thought if i came home i could use this system of mine. its a 1200mhz amdduron 128mbram integrated video card 3gb harddisk seagate i think floppy disk drive cdrom drive(now its in the dumpster ill explain why) display 14inch keyboard. a network card on it too. ethernet...i always see that stuff when i try to boot. now allot of time ago it had a windows 98 on it i tried to and succesfully put linux with someone else's cdrom because mine was working only after i booted windows meaning it didnt want to boot it. so i managed to put mandrake 10 on it and after that i tried something wrong and i f***** it up so after that i had no os on it. tried relentlesly to put something on it nothing wanted to f****** boot no windoze,no linux,no freebsd no nothing i tried about 14 times now switching all possible combination of jumpers on harddrive and ide cables with stuff there...all possible ide detection stuff in bios. all that stuff nothing f****** works nothign also tried damns small linux didnt even booted and cdrom stalled and display of computer stared at me while the cursor was clipping on the screen. and i wanted to take my f***** hammer and hit it as hard as i could and then take all that mangled stuff to the dumpster(but i didnt thats why i cam here) !!!!! my problem is that i dont want to give up i hang on with my teeth until i make it well seems this time my computer broke my teeth off. no luck i lost allot of nights on this and i need help now. now last night i tried to get tiny linux for small antic relics recycled computers and put that on disks numbered the disks 14 in total. and tried tiny linux here at the net cafe and it worked perfectly(managed to install tiny linux at net cafe computer...also f***** its mbr up and got away really fast before someone could see me). i walked home verry happy thinking it will work home too and ill get a working system home for the hollidays so i can get some math programs done and some other bash scripts i wanted to work on. i got home after i endured 2km of f***** cold weather. i booted from the first 2 disks as said in documentation there and then when it came to partitioning harddisk it gave some very weird errors as if it couldnt partition my harddisk altough my harddisk from home as i know works fine. but when i installed at the net cafe tiny linux it took some amount of time to partition. but home it just got from the blue yellow interface to console printed quickly some stuff about not finding some paths and then got to the part where it starts to ask for each of the 12 disks to install packages from them. but after i selected my floppy disk as a: it just gaves me a prompter with a shell with prefix only a # and then terminates and reboots. now i tried all combinations for boot ramdisk root=/dev/fd1 ramdisk root=/dev/hda1 ramdisk root=/dev/hda ramdisk root=/dev/hda2 ramdisk root=/dev/hda3 ramdisk root=/dev/hda4 ramdisk root=/dev/hda5 ramdisk root=/dev/hda6 altough i only have to hda1 to hda 5. also tried to boot from cdrom with ramdisk root=/dev/hdd also with ramdisk root=/dev/cdrom also tried mount root=/dev/hda to hda5 also tried all stuff with mount too. i pulled my hair off i got the cdrom out of the minitower i tried to unscrew the screws,some didnt wanted to go out so i smashed the thing with my bare hands(this at 3:00 am in the morning) and i threw at and it hit the wall splattering all over. i took my broomstick put it all to the dumpster. than smoked a cig,drank a beer and then slept until 1:00PM. dreamt about it also. also i have to mention i tried all boot sequences possible from linux. also i have dealt with normal linux and windoze boxes. i dont know any explanation i would like advice |
I have had motherboards that were bad and they will do alot of strange stuff.
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My advice: Take a break from the computer for a couple of days, then try using a Live CD such as Knoppix, which will let you use a full fledged Linux system without actually installing anything to the hard drive. Once you are more comfortable with Linux, installing it to your hard drive will probably seem easy. Good luck with it |
you dont understand
you dont understand its not about having it run from ram or harddisk.
from cd it dont wanna boot so i ripped up the cdrom drive into bits. damn small linux on live cd is also knoppix and it dont wanna even install to hdd from damn floppies...so its worse |
progress on the problem
i managed to get some funky dvd-rom from a friend partitioned hdd in two partitions /dev/hdd1 3.1gb /dev/hdd2 0.1gb booted xp and installed it. in hdd1 installed xp in hdd2 installed damnsmalllinux and also installed grub when i booted i see something like grub error and it stops i reinstalled windows xp again and damnsmalllinux now not letting it to write grub stuff now i have windows xp and damnsmalllinux but i can only run windows xp as it starts after i start my computer. i tried to boot damnsmalllinux by putting in my floppy disk a boot disk i had near me wich was boot disk for tiny linux and i wrote mount root=/dev/hdd2 and it booted but somewhere it asks me for password for root and it says there are some files missing now i just want to make a boot diskette for damnsmalllinux i have it on /dev/hdd2. how do i do this ? on windows |
I wouldn't be too harsh with a 3.1Gb for XP and 0.1Gb for DSL. The DSL 2.1 I have has a footprint close to 0.4Gb.
To get into you DSL, if it is operable, you can always boot up the DSL installation CD, make a partition to mount hdd2 and chane root into it so that you can do wantever you like "inside" the hdd2 DSL, including a creating a bootable floppy, assuming your DSL is complete. Normal commands after booting up DSL CD are Code:
mkdir /mnt/hdd2 |
i dont have dvd-rom or cdrom now
i just have my floppy drive to boot from so i am thinking about going somewhere where i can run DSL and making that grub-install /dev/fd0 i tried that already with grub-install /dev/fd01440 or something like that i saw that my floppy drive led was lit and it wrote something on the diskette. and then i booted and it didnt work in the sense that it did not boot from my /dev/hdd2 so what should i have done? i have a one-shot try as a computer with cdrom or dvdrom is not very near me |
If you have a Grub floppy that should solve 95% of your problem because it can boot every Dos, Windows, Linux, Solaris and BSD I installed.
Chapter 3.1 of Grub Manual refers. The required stage1 and stage2 are inside DSL but also are available in many Live CDs. This thread documents the Grub instructions booting 100+ systems. |
story goes on
ok the rabbit hole gets deeper
lets see where this story leads to...im learning something from this trouble im getting into also so im somewhat happy also. ok i got my tiny linux boot disquette and booted with ramdisk root=/dev/hdd2 and as always it booted,i saw colored text(wich is not specific to tiny linux so it seems ive finally booted damn small linux) problem is now i cant understand why it always says that it cannot run some modules and it cannot write some logs and configuration files on my harddisk /dev/hdd2. then i tried to mount /dev/hdd2 /mnt/hdd2 as someone in this post said and got some message that that kernel 2.2.6 does not support this so wtf?!?!?!? i knew that 2.2.6 is a relique,antiquity. so i try to find out why am i running this kernel altough the dsl version was pretty new(this year i burnt the cd from wich the install to /dev/hdd2 was made)and give it uname -a i find that i was running kernel 2.2.6 distro - unknown. i didnt quite understand but probably it was running the kernel from the boot disquette and not from /dev/hdd2 so i wanted to find the kernel of dsl and i gave it find | grep kernel and i find something like ./lib/modules/kernel/2.4.31 so obviously i had some really old version kernel running. so now i try fsck /dev/hdd2 and it said that my /dev/hdd2 had no fs recognizable by my fsck so it wanted to do some convertions also i modified a line in lilo.conf on the boot diskette that said ramdisk = something /dev/fd01440 to ramdisk = something /dev/hdd2 and i let it(ext3 was not compatible with 2.2.6 kernel version) and it did something there... now i rebooted i put the diskette in and booted again from it with same command i used above and then it wrote some stuff on harddisk it also let me this time to run X wow!!!! because it could write some configuration stuff on harddrive and yes now i had X. i could write on my harddrive this was awesome!!! and i put my ps2 mouse because ofcourse the usb one didnt want to work on 2.2.6 kernel so i got my distro working <100% and now trying to make it work 100% was going to bring me right were i started off meaning 0% but let me tell you how that was possible... i thought is there any posibility of making dsl run instead of wxp ? and there was cfdisk so i did cfdisk /dev/hdd i saw there were 2 partitions hdd1 and hdd2 hdd1 had the boot flag on i put the boot flag on for hdd2 and disabled it for hdd2 (i saw it was possible that both of them had the boot flag on at the same time,wonder what the heck would have happened if i would have let that that way and tried to boot) and i booted and i got no windows xp no damnsmalllinux just some weird annoying expected message Error booting from harddrive or something like that. very nice stuff... now im let off where i started... ill dig it up until i get a solution i hope i find it with your help also |
I am afraid you have to go back to your disquette again
If your DSL has the 2.4.31 kernel then it is recent and you should have Grub 0.91 there. I checked mine and can confirmed both the DSL 2.0 and 2.1 rc2 have 2.4.31 kernel. The latter is the latest. Linux doesn't use the boot flag. That was your 1st mistake to play around with it. XP needs the boot flag switched on and you shouldn't switch it off. That was your 2nd mistake. Since you never had a workable boot loader in the MBR you should ask DSL to replicate it but you didn't and lost it now. That was your 3rd mistake. I trust you can take care the 1st and 2nd mistakes. For the third you should while inside DSL replicate Grub into MBR by Code:
grub-install /dev/hda While you are in DSL, change directory /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc, just pop in a floppy and type Code:
dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 My guess is that you can type Code:
root (hd0,0) Code:
root (hd0,1) Code:
root (hd0,1] There is no rabbit hole after all, so go back to get drunk in the party! Happy new year. |
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