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    Boot Disk Problem

    This would only happen to me!

    I use GRUB as my boot-loader. I have Knoppix, JAMD Linux and Win 2k installed. When I installed Knoppix I chose only to make a boot disk.

    The boot disk worked fine but now the floppy is bad. So no Mepis boot disk.

    Knoppix is located on drive partition /dev/hda7

    Can Knoppix be added to my grub boot loader. How would it be done?

    Below is my GRUB file. It looks like this._
    __________________________________________________ _____________
    # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
    # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
    # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
    # root (hd0,5)
    # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6
    # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
    #boot=/dev/hda
    default=0
    timeout=10
    splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    title JAMD Linux (2.4.20-9)
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-9 ro root=LABEL=/
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-9.img
    title DOS
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1
    # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
    # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
    # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
    # root (hd0,5)
    # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6
    # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
    #boot=/dev/hda
    default=0
    timeout=10
    splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    title JAMD Linux (2.4.20-9)
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-9 ro root=LABEL=/
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-9.img
    title DOS
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1
    __________________________________________________ ________________

    Thanks for the help,

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    Well nobody replied. Thats OK. I dug around and found the fix.

    This is finally what worked.I underscored the fix lines.

    default=0
    timeout=10
    splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    title JAMD Linux (2.4.20-9)
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-9 ro root=LABEL=/
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-9.img
    title Windows 2K and 98
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1
    __________________________________________________ __
    title Knoppix Linux (2.4.xx)
    root (hd0,6)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.xx ro root=/dev/hda7
    initrd /boot/initrd.xx-2.4.xx
    __________________________________________________ __

    Anyway that seems to work.

    As it boots, I notice that auto-mount wants to mount a non existent file in the var directory called auto. This may have been happing before but I did not notice. It does not seem to be causing any problems yet.
    Other then the above auto-mount issuet all is working as before.

    Hope this helps someone else if they run into a boot disk thta goes south.

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