[vox-tech] grub booting

[Jimbo]

;( ;( ;( .....yup.  Couldn't wait for the good advice and I have butchered 
this thing.

I was getting a nice boot up screen with mepis but not for debian.  Not 
really finding anything on the web I found some boot pages that almost 
mirrored each other.  So I started adding lines to the txt file.  I figured 
that I also had to do something with the mepis file so I renamed it for 
convience sake's.

When I booted up my machine, the word Grub came up but not the debian pick 
and choose screen.  So...I took my #1 debian disc and installed just the 
basic system on whatI thought was a free space hard drive and flagged it 
boot.  Now screen came up with not only debian kernels llike it was before 
but it also gave me Mepis option as well.  Unfortunatly the so called free 
space must have been used as a swap partition or whathaveyou so when I 
picked debian 2.6 kernel it halted and said I need to do maintaince.

IT'S FORMAT TIME!!!  :)
Lesson learned about free partitions...don't cast them as anything!  Instead 
leave them as free space.  When I installed debian I called it logical or 
something like that.  I have a fat 80G HD that I will partion the hell out 
of.

Jimbo.
Gotta run and get some pizza.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Kendrick" <nbs at sonic.net>
To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" <vox-tech at lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] grub booting


> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 03:47:19AM -0700, Jim wrote:
>> I have installed mephis on an empty partition. All went well but it 
>> didn't
>> give me an option to boot up into my debian os.
>
> So Mepis replaced your GRUB bootloader, and now it's only showing Mepis
> as an option?
>
> Or are you even given a bootloader screen when you boot up?
> If not, try holding SHIFT during the boot process.  (I forget if this is 
> how
> GRUB works, but in LILO, if you had it NOT show a menu -- and therefore
> auto-boot some specific OS every time you booted -- you could hold SHIFT 
> to
> force the menu to appear.)
>
> Good luck!
>
> -- 
> -bill!
> bill at newbreedsoftware.com
> http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/
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