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Cannot Get REDHAT Linux WS to Boot....How do I make a GRUB FD or CD to Boot from???
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| Thomas Collins Jr 2005-06-10, 5:56 pm |
| Just got a new AMD64 computer and it came with two 250GB SATA drives.
This is where I run my XP/PRO OS. I don't want to mess with the MBR
as I tried this once and it totally trashed my Windows OS and I
couldn't boot either XP or Redhat WS.
I installed a spare 250GB EIDE drive I had lying around and
Partitioned it as HDA1 /BOOT, HDA2 /ROOT AND /HDA3 SWAP.
Linux Enterprise WS (Evaluation for 30 days), formatted and installed
OK into these partitions. When I boot from in the Rescue Mode from
CD1 there is a /boot with GRUB dir and in there are Stage1 and Stage2
files.
My question is how do I make a FD or CD to boot into my Linux OS? I
don't want installation GRUB disks but something that will bring my OS
up and running.
Any help would be deeply appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom
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| MrSpiffy 2005-06-16, 5:52 pm |
| On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:09:20 +0200, Arie wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Thomas Collins Jr wrote:
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> What do you mean? Are you saying you want to start your OS without any
> bootloader?
> If you don't want GRUB (or LILO) on your HD, you need to install it on a
> floppy or a CD.
> However starting your OS without a bootloader, forget it!
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you could make a grub boot floppy with a menu on it (google)
but it is so much easier to install grub on your MBR of your HD.
(with a menu)
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| Thomas Collins Jr 2005-06-24, 5:59 pm |
| No, I do want a boot loader, just it looks like I have to use a
GRUB disk to boot Redhat Linux which is fine by me.
I have tried the different GRUB boot disks creations I found
on GOOGLE, and I know where my Linux \boot sector is hda,
but when I make the disk I get a GEOM ERROR message each
time.
My SATA Drives are fully NTFS formatted and Linux will be
on a totally separate drive EIDE Drive 1 in the first half of
a 250GB drive.
I will admit I'm totally ignorant about GRUB and how it works.
Tom
Bottom Line: I just want to boot Linux from a floppy vs. changing
my SATA to VFAT.
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:09:20 +0200, Arie
<fedora.linux@home.nos-pam.nl> wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
>Thomas Collins Jr wrote:
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>What do you mean? Are you saying you want to start your OS without any
>bootloader?
>If you don't want GRUB (or LILO) on your HD, you need to install it on a
>floppy or a CD.
>However starting your OS without a bootloader, forget it!
>
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