Hi y'all

I have installed another OS (debian) onto my multiboot system.

when i installed it I set it to boot from floppy. I now wish to make it boot using GRUB, but cannot seem to find the Kernel, which I thought would be in the /boot directory of my new OS.

would the kernel be sitting on the floppy in the .img? if so how do I get a kernel into my /boot dir?

there is a file named vmlinuz-xxx in /boot however there is no executable.

Halp!

/boot/vmlinuz
is the kernel image..
possibly /boot/vmlinuz-something

mm...

in /boot/vmlinuz there is a vmlinuz-something, but its not an executable.

in my RH there are 2 of these, one of which is executable. I sorta thought that this would be the same sorta thing.

I have edited grub to boot, when I try it comes up file not found.

is your /boot on seperate partition?

or do u have /boot for each distro?

i'm not sure what you are trying to do..

logically, you can have one /boot and share it
but not sure what you are asking..

yeah, I know I should have one /boot, unfortunately I have /boot for each partition,
my grub conf is:
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda6 hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img
title Debian
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 ro root=/dev/hda8 hdc=ide-scsi
title Luser
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

this is in the RH /boot and loads RH, Debian(supposedly) and XP (Luser)

whe I get around to it, I will have separate partition for /boot Iguess that means re installing all my Linux OS's or could i just create a new partition and move boot to it?

first of all.
try not to uninstall everything when you have problem.
most of time u don't have to.

i never done installing two linux on one system.
and i use lilo

this is my rough guess what u can do.
it won't cause dmg to your system so u might well try it


[1]
your rh has /boot
your grub tries to access /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 (debian)
which prolly doesn't exist on your rh /boot directory
obviously it wont find it..

so i would try to cp debian kernel img onto /boot on your red hat
one thing bothers me, System.map also does differ, and i don't know if it'll be ok to share one System.map

[2] if [1] doesn't work
create a seperate partition (10-15mg)
compile kernel from source
move /boot to /boot2 on both redhat/debian
mount the newly created partition on /boot
--add /etc/fstab
/dev/hda6 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
u need to replace 6 to whatever partition number u just created
ext3 to whatever file system you created the partition with
--
run grup initialization..( with lilo, just running /sbin/lilo will reinitialize lilo. i don't know how to do it with grub)
reboot

oh! don't worry, I hate uninstalling stuff!
I might try copying my vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 file to rh/boot

I kinda thought that the setting in grub root (hd0,8) might be telling grub where all the files for booting were..

u might be able to specify what system.map file to use under each section on your grub config file..

mmm...
grub config doesn't seem to say anything about system.map in the RH boot bit.

I really think that because I set debian to boot from floppy it hasn't installed the kernel to my /boot in debian, but put it on the floppy only.

sorry, if it didn't work..
i think u gotta wait someone better than me answers you.
or u could try searching this forum or google..
'dual boot'

The default Debian kernel (2.2.20 in Woody) is located at /vmlinuz

I don't know why they do this instead of putting it in the /boot/ dir, but that's how it's set up.

If you're using the 2.4 series debian kernel, then I don't know where it would be, probably the same place though.

mmm... no /vmlinuz, I thinks I'm going to reinstall debian as I'm having a few problems with xserver and the like, try and fix it all in one hit!

good luck to you. : )