[64studio-devel] Version 2.0 boot failure

[William McCanless]

On 10/1/07, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
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> You likely installed 64Studio with its own grub into the second hard
> drive.  Basically you have two different copies of grub installed, but
> the bios will boot from the first one it finds (this is the short short
> answer, there is plenty of documentation for those who are curious about
> the details).

This is true, and when booting 64studio appears on the boot list, but
something seems to be fouled up between there and the actual boot
sequence on hdb.
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SNIP

> This is easy if everything is one partition, else you will have to mount
> each partition to have a look at it.  What you are looking for is the
> partition that holds /boot

This is good, on my second install attempt I made only one partition,
to see if that would change anything.
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> You can copy some of the entries out of your 64Studio menu.lst and copy
> them into your SuSe menu.lst.   When you reboot you will see entries for
> 64Studio.

The entry is there already. The boot starts but then stalls before
transferring to hdb (see my first message on this subject).

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> Pay attention to the root option in grub.  root = (hd0,0) is referring
> to /dev/hda1 (or possibly /dev/sda1 if you have SATA).  The 64Studio
> portion should be (hd1,0) or something similar, depending on the layout
> of the partitions on that drive.
>
> Some links for you (this is not a complete list of useful links, just
> enough to get you started).
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4622
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Thanks for the info. I am already studying the grub docs and multi
booting info I found on the web. Will check these sites too.

> Personally I have little to no use for multiboot, especially on my DAW.

I have been wondering if there were a better way.

     Thanks,   -ED-