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  1. #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by malaire
    Quote Originally Posted by SimonomiS
    Hmm, but I can't even get that far.

    It gets to the boot promt, any booting command gives me the not syncing; VFS etc error, and for other commands it gives me "kernel image sudo (or whatever it I try) not found".
    Sorry, I didn't realize you were unable to boot at all. That command I gave can only be used in konsole, after a successfull boot.
    Ah ok. Is there any emergency command that can rewrite the HD? Or another program that can do that? (I read Grub somewhere in this thread). If I can get over this, I think I'll choose something other than Knoppix as a HD based Linux distro heh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pt-1
    OK You are the man !!

    Boot your PC and wait until you get the Grub Menu

    Then Press E on the 1st Entry
    Then use arrow down to select the faulty Entry
    Then press E again
    Use arrow to the left until you get to the faulty entry (### ) and replace it with ramd

    Press ESC

    Press B to boot and be happy !!

    I've gotten that far, how do you save your settings once you've edited ### isk to ramdisk?

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    Ok, I have Adriane Knoppix 6 installed to my second SCSI drive. I got the same error when appending the Adriane to the /boot/grub/menu.lst which was already working for me.

    This is the menu.lst generated by 0wn..

    default 0
    timeout 30
    color cyan/blue white/blue

    title KNOPPIX
    root (hd2,1)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 lang=us keyboard=dvorak apm=power-off vga=791 nomce loglevel=0 quiet lang=us keyboard=dvorak rw

    title Windows
    rootnoverify (hd0,1)
    chainloader +1
    This is the /boot/grub/menu.lst generated by TeenPup Linux and with the 0wn generated entry for Adriane appended.

    And highlighted.


    # GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
    # generated by 'grubconfig'. Sun May 17 02:59:55 2009
    #
    # Start GRUB global section
    #timeout 30
    color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
    # End GRUB global section
    # Linux bootable partition config begins
    title Linux (on /dev/sda1)
    root (hd1,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=normal
    # Linux bootable partition config ends
    # Other bootable partition config begins
    title Windows (on /dev/hda2)
    map (hd0,0) (hd0,1)
    map (hd0,1) (hd0,0)
    rootnoverify (hd0,1)
    makeactive
    chainloader +1
    # Other bootable partition config ends
    # Linux bootable partition config begins
    title Linux (on /dev/hda3)
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro vga=normal
    # Linux bootable partition config ends
    # Linux bootable partition config begins
    title Linux (on /dev/sdb2)
    root (hd2,1)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 ro vga=normal

    # Linux bootable partition config ends
    title Install GRUB to floppy disk (on /dev/fd0)
    pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
    root (hd0,2)
    setup (fd0)
    pause Press enter to continue.
    title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/hda3)
    root (hd0,2)
    setup (hd0,2)
    pause Press enter to continue.
    title - For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
    root (hd0)
    title - For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
    root (hd0)
    This is the boot message I get when booting either variant...

    "[ 0.499891] dca service started, version 1.4
    [ 0.558761] pci 000:01:00.0: BAR 6: Can't allocate mem resource [0xfe000000-0xfdffffff]
    [ 0.572854] alg: cipher : Test 1 failed on encryption for aes-asm
    [ 3.319802] IO APIC resources could not be allocated.
    [ 4.044099] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
    First partition is Knoppix 5.1

    Second is M$ Windoze 2000

    Third is Puppy Linux.

    /sda1 is Freespire

    All of them boot OK.

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    SCHEISSE...

    I declined to install grub... this last time...

    and installed Grub from Puppy linux.

    Didn't have the "quiet" option.

    SCSI.

    At the last part, hundreds of lines of error messages... finally it comes to that.

    (hd2,0) is a SCSI drive.

    If I recall correctly there's a cheat-code to force recognition of SCSI.

    It listed available partitions to boot, but all on IDE.

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