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Cannot boot into Slax with grub...

I'm trying out a few distros at the moment but I'm having problems booting up Slax.

My partitions are laid out like this so far-
hda1 - Ubuntu
hda5 - PCLinuxOS
hda6 - Slax

hdb1 - Windows XP
hdb5 - Arch

All other OS's are booting fine but I've just installed Slax to hard drive from the live cd. It booted fine from it's own lilo booter after install but I re-installed grub from ubuntu which is my main, permanant distro.
In Slax's boot directory it just has the files map, vmlinuz and a bitmap image and nothing I have tried in grub will even get it starting booting, I get various errors such as invalid format, file not found etc.
If I can get lilo in Slax to install to the hda6 partition, which I did with PCLinuxOS at first, I reckon it will work but I can't do that either.

Hi,

Could you please post your grub.conf file? /boot/grub/grub.conf, because that way we can analize the options/parameters... ;)

J_K9

I don't have a grub.conf but this is my menu.lst if it helps.

Code:

default                0

timeout                10



splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz



title                Ubuntu Linux

root                (hd0,0)

kernel                /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash vga=792 

initrd                /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386

savedefault

boot



title                PCLOS Linux

root                (hd0,4)

kernel                /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-oci12.mdk-i586-up-1GB root=/dev/hda5 vga=792

initrd                /boot/initrd-2.6.11-oci12.mdk-i586-up-1GB.img

savedefault

boot



title          Windows XP

root            (hd1,0)

savedefault

makeactive

map (hd0) (hd1)

map (hd1) (hd0)

chainloader    +1





title                Slax 1

rootnoverify        (hd0,5)

chainloader +1





title                Slax 2

root                (hd0,5)

kernel                /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=792

savedefault

boot

When I went to check my menu.lst I realised I had already deleted some of the slax related entries that didn't work and unfortunately, I can't remember what they were since all were copied from various forum searches. The 2 still listed don't work either.
I'm still very much in learning mode so please don't be too hard on me if I've missed something simple.

OK, in Ubuntu, type (in terminal):

# sudo mkdir /media/slax
# sudo mount /dev/hda5 /media/slax

OK, once there, navigate to your /media/slax/boot directory. In there, you said there was a vmlinuz file - take the version number of that. In fact, copy the whole name. If there is an initrd, then copy that too. Then, in your menu.lst, put in the following entry:

Code:

title                Slax

root                (hd0,5)

kernel                /boot/vmlinuz-version root=/dev/hda5 vga=792

initrd                /boot/initrd-blahblah.img #There should be one

savedefault



boot

Does that work? Hope it does! ;)

J_K9

I thought the lack of an imitrd.img file may be a cause for problems booting.
The vmlinuz has no version number, it's just called vmlinuz and there is no imitrd.img file, I've been trying to make one but I'm not having much luck.