[Ilugc] puppy wont boot
- From: dearsaravanan@xxxxxxxxx (Saravanan S)
- Date: Wed Feb 24 18:21:59 2010
Hi KG,
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
I think it is something to do with numbers (that is what puppy says). I
have
two partitions - mandriva had called them /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda6 and in
grub
they are referred to as hd(0,0) and hd(0,5). But in menu.lst there is a
reference to /dev/sda6 - should I change this to /dev/sda5? or to
/dev/hda5? -
I am asking all this because I do not have access to the machine right now.
Once done with the
Step A :
grub > root hd(0,0)
The above should not throw any error.
Step B:
grub > kernel /<Press TAB and find if you can see any files like vmlinuz*;
If yes proceed and then to initrd and boot steps, else go back to step A and
try hd0,1 or something>
In menu.lst root=/dev/sdaX;
If you are confused about the same, Try to label the partitions with e2label
and reference that with LABEL parameter.
e2label /dev/sdaX /labelX
now you can modify menu.lst entry as root=LABEL=/labelX
HTH :)
Saravanan Sundaramoorthy
Red Hat Certified Engineer
+91 99404 32545
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