booting linux with no loader
I have a dual boot with xp and rh8. How would i go about booting to rh when my grub boot loader is gone and boot disk gives kernel panick -can't find kernel warning?
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Linux needs some kind of boot loader to load it, the kernel can not load itself as of yet.
If your winXP boot loader works, i think it is possible to make it load linux as well, google for it. To edit the bootloader (at least in win2k, never used XP) you need to open a dos prompt, cd / edit boot.ini But i dont know how to specify the linux disk and load options, as i said google for it, otherwise pop in a Linux rescue CD (usually the installation CD) mount your / partition and run /mnt/linuxroothere/sbin/lilo HTH -NSKL |
great gonna try that real quick.thanks
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okay i have my problem fixed. what i did was insert install disk,went to update packages,installed a few new packages and reinstalled bootloader and made a new working bootdisk. thanks
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had the same prob!
I had the same problem when i thought i was real smart and did a disk to disk copy of a debian install, on a diferent size HDD!
It gave me the same repetitive lines u mentioned above, the way i got it to work again was using the three debian rescue/install floppies where i went and "re-intialized" the linux swap and "/" partitions then made the system bootable and i was laughing! however i do feel i got lucky! not sure if this helps! ed. |
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