[Quantian-general] Hard Drive Install

[Cecil Penn]

I've tried a hard drive installation of Quantian (per the "How to Boot
Quantian via LILO or GRUB HOWTO") without success.  My "resident" linux
installation is Fedora Core 4 running on an old Proliant DL360 (this server
has 2 scsi drives operating as raid 1).  FC4 works fine on this machine.
I've copied the iso and kernels and initrd files to the locations specified
in the HOWTO.  I've also modified the GRUB menu.1st file per the HOWTO.
When I try to reboot into Quantian, I receive the following error:

		root (hd0,0)
		Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
		kernel /boot/linux26 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init
lang=us, apm=power-off

		Error 15: File not found

		Press any key to continue...

I assume that "file not found" means I've misnamed a file or directory.
First I confirmed that I copied the files to the correct directory.  It
seems that FC4 has a file organization slightly different from what is
assumed in the HOWTO, so I've tried the following variations in the menu.1st
file:  


init=/etc/init	->	init=/sbin/init
			init/etc/init.d

bootfrom=/dev/hda1/*.iso	->	bootfrom=/dev/ida/c0d0p2/*.iso
					bootfrom=/dev/ida/c0d0p1/*.iso
	
bootfrom=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00/*.iso

The changed the init line because FC4 has no init file in /etc.  I wasn't
sure if /etc/init was intended to be a file or directory, so I tried
/sbin/init (a file) and the directory init.d.  I also tried the strange
"ida/c0d0p1" because fdisk reports this as the boot partition and there is
no "hda1" shown in fstab.  I also tried the "VolGroup00/LogVol00" because
the menu.1st file has an option root=/dev/ VolGroup00/LogVol00 when booting
into the "resident" Fedora Core 4 OS (kernel version 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp).

Each time I reboot, I receive the same error message as above.

What am I missing?  I'm afraid I'm very much a linux newbie (does it show?)
and any help would be appreciated.

Cecil 
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