booting linux with no loader

sandman · 11-10-2002, 02:29 PM

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?

NSKL · 11-10-2002, 03:02 PM

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

sandman · 11-10-2002, 03:10 PM

great gonna try that real quick.thanks

sandman · 11-10-2002, 04:49 PM

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

epeus · 11-10-2002, 05:24 PM

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.