Using grub to boot.. How do I edit to get mandrake to boot?
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Using grub to boot.. How do I edit to get mandrake to boot?
Here is my entry and when it is selected I cannot boot into mandrake on hda1 or the first partition. It is on a primary partition and can boot from the floppy.
Edit the kernel parameters for Mandrake so that they look like the the params for Kanotix (from Kanotix, mount /dev/hda1 to a mount point in /mnt directory in Kanotix. If no mount point exists, create one: mkdir /mnt/Drake or some such, then give the mount /dev/hda1 command). Cd to the Kanotix /mnt/Drake/boot folder and get the name of Drake's vmlinuz compressed kernel. Edit the grub.conf or menu.lst file you are currently using (Kanotix) to boot, and change the kernel params for Drake to read kernel /boot/vmlinuz-<kernel number> instead of kernel /mnt/hda1.
I changed to vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-10mdk like the file says but I don't quite understand the other part of what was said. I did create a dir called /mnt/drake. When I reboot and try Mandrake I get an error that says the file does not exist. So that tells me that it is not looking in the right place.
Using the name of the mount point in the kernel won't boot the system. Grub needs to know where the root of the file system is (the device name, such as /dev/hda1) and where to find the /boot directory and the name of the compressed kernel to use. That's why using /mnt/hda1 won't boot Drake.
In the Drake kernel params, change "kernel /mnt/hda1/boot/initrd.img" to "kernel /boot/initrd.img" (in other words, drop the /mnt/hda1 part. That tells grub that initrd.img is in /boot. The next part of that line (root=/dev/hda1) tells grub where the root of the file system is. You might also want to correct the spelling splach=silent to splash=silent.
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