Adding a USB Linux to Fatdog's Grub menu - SOLVED (sort of)
Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2013, 19:32
I can boot SLAX 7 from a CD on my laptop but I'd like to boot it from a USB stick.
My laptop doesn't let me specify USB booting for some reason. (It's a Toshiba Portege R700 - 1DD).
I have Windows 7 and Fatdog on this machine so I thought I'd add SLAX in as a boot option in Grub but I can't get it to work.
My menu.lst currently looks like this:-
timeout 5
title fatdog
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz search
initrd /initrd
title slax7
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz
initrd /initrd
I get the fatdog and slax7 options when booting but if I select slax7 grub can't find the kernel.
That's probably because I haven't specified the path correctly, but none of the options I have tried so far work.
Fatdog sees the Slax kernel as /mnt/sdb1/slax/boot/vmlinuz - so what should I be typing after the word kernel so that grub can find it?
For bonus points, Slax doesn't seem to have initrd at all. There's an initrfs.img and isolinux.bin - should I be using them?
Alternatively, can anyone recommend a decent site with examples of Grub menu.lst files? (Because I haven't found one yet!)
My laptop doesn't let me specify USB booting for some reason. (It's a Toshiba Portege R700 - 1DD).
I have Windows 7 and Fatdog on this machine so I thought I'd add SLAX in as a boot option in Grub but I can't get it to work.
My menu.lst currently looks like this:-
timeout 5
title fatdog
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz search
initrd /initrd
title slax7
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz
initrd /initrd
I get the fatdog and slax7 options when booting but if I select slax7 grub can't find the kernel.
That's probably because I haven't specified the path correctly, but none of the options I have tried so far work.
Fatdog sees the Slax kernel as /mnt/sdb1/slax/boot/vmlinuz - so what should I be typing after the word kernel so that grub can find it?
For bonus points, Slax doesn't seem to have initrd at all. There's an initrfs.img and isolinux.bin - should I be using them?
Alternatively, can anyone recommend a decent site with examples of Grub menu.lst files? (Because I haven't found one yet!)