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benny7440
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 Posted: Thu 14 Mar 2013, 16:56 Post subject:
 How to configure grub4dos?
Subject description: I don't understand the instructions in many webpages... |
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... either they're incomplete or I am!
A sample of my menu.lst follows:
| Code: | title konboot from floppy image
map (hd1,0)/aa.img (fd0)
mao --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
# errorcheck on
boot
# additionals
title DSL (sdb1:PBS)
map (hd0,0)/dsl-4.11rc1.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
# "lo que está a la derecha estaba pegado al final de la línea anterior" >> ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=789
# "esto no estaba comentado" >> nomce noapic BOOT_IMAGE=dsl
# " " " >> initrd /dsl_root/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
# find --set-root --ignre-floppies --ignore-cd /sdb1/boot/isolinux/linux24
# uuid BF7B-1BED
# chainloader +1
# chainloader /linux24
# "esto no estaba comentado" >> errorcheck on
boot
title CDROM (any OS - cd0)
cdrom --init
cdrom --hook
chainloader (cd0)
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First of all, I don't have a Windows OS in this machine nor in the CFCard. All I'm doing at this Comp (#1) is within PL528 (frugal), don't have a FD drive &, even though I've an installed pet for PXEing the HP laptop that never completed??? So, all I want is to be able to boot something from the CFCard that can be used for executing konboot (also contained there) at another machine.
My logic, which by now needs a desperate defragmenting process, tells me that what I'm putting at the menu.lst is incomplete because I don't find a way the OS loader can find what I need to execute but I cannot find instructions to that end, neither.
I've tried diferent forms but all I receive back are error messages like:
1) konboot @(sdb1:PBS) - error 15: File not found;
2) DSL (sdb1:PBS) - error 27: unrecognized command.
Notes: The 'sdb1' thing seen above is the name my puppy gives to this drive when I connect it to the Comp #1 (VAIO). I can't remember from where I extracted the UUID. In any case, things are more or less the same with all the methods I've used so far. Much of the code that's commented above (notice the # symbol within the menu.lst extract) was already tried; it was pasted from some webpages that are suppossed to be showing a TUTORIAL!
Thanks to anybody that has something to point out about this issue.
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Need color of cables of 2 connectors at top & down side of Dell monitor 1704FPTt (look through vents at right side at the back)
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L18L
Joined: 19 Jun 2010
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Location: Burghaslach, Germany
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Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 08:51 Post subject:
Re: How to configure grub4dos?
Subject description: I don't understand the instructions in many webpages... |
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| benny7440 wrote: | | ... it was pasted from some webpages that are suppossed to be showing a TUTORIAL!... |
Why not use puppy's page:
| Code: | | defaulthtmlviewer file:///usr/share/doc/help/C/grub4dosconfig.html |
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benny7440
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| Posted: Thu 21 Mar 2013, 13:45 Post subject:
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Thanks, L18L, for replying!
Have been reading those pages you pointed out & they're much better, hope to be able to solve my issue soon; I'll post below whatever happens in the next few days.
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benny7440
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OK, this's to establish that I catched a syntax error in my 'menu.lst' file at the 3rd line after the one starting with "title konboot ...". The error was that 'map --hook' was written as 'mao --hook'. Now the story is a bit different.
It's not saying Error 15: etc., but now it's Error 23: Error while parsing number.
The fact that those errors appear as per my 2 interesting selections (DSL & konboot) for me it says that the boot loader is in fact finding the targets; this has been one of my doubts because I'm creating the menu.lst file at another machine & using PL528 to identify the device in a VAIO but the Ist target machine here is an HP & a clone desktop somewhere else. This still disturbs me a bit: can one system (H/W) identify a device as, say, sdb1 & another as sdc1 or hd0 or whatever, making the commands in the menu.lst file unusable?
Thanks to anybody that has something to say.
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