[Quantian-general] Hard Drive Install

[Anne York]

IF  FC4 is on hda1 and you  want to put 
Quantian on hda1 according your grub menu.lst (list not 
first), you may blow away FC4. You have to have enough space 
for a dual boot quantian/FC4. If both are on hda1, you have 
to manually edit the grub menu file.

Also, one  needs to make sure that /dev/hda1/boot 
contains the file "linux26" not the *.iso that is what we've 
seen causes "Error 15: file not found".  You may have to 
copy by hand to hda1/boot if hda1 is really where it needs 
to be if  grub is not working properly.


If you just want to boot from iso image on hd, then insert 
Q* cd or dvd or knoppix cd with same kernel, reboot, and 
give command,

   knoppix lang=us bootfrom=/dev/hda1/Q*.iso

assuming the iso image is on hda1.




On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Cecil Penn wrote:

CP > I've tried a hard drive installation of Quantian (per the "How to Boot
CP > Quantian via LILO or GRUB HOWTO") without success.  My "resident" linux
CP > installation is Fedora Core 4 running on an old Proliant DL360 (this server
CP > has 2 scsi drives operating as raid 1).  FC4 works fine on this machine.
CP > I've copied the iso and kernels and initrd files to the locations specified
CP > in the HOWTO.  I've also modified the GRUB menu.1st file per the HOWTO.
CP > When I try to reboot into Quantian, I receive the following error:
CP > 
CP > 		root (hd0,0)
CP > 		Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
CP > 		kernel /boot/linux26 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init
CP > lang=us, apm=power-off
CP > 
CP > 		Error 15: File not found
CP > 
CP > 		Press any key to continue...
CP > 
CP > I assume that "file not found" means I've misnamed a file or directory.
CP > First I confirmed that I copied the files to the correct directory.  It
CP > seems that FC4 has a file organization slightly different from what is
CP > assumed in the HOWTO, so I've tried the following variations in the menu.1st
CP > file:  
CP > 
CP > 
CP > init=/etc/init	->	init=/sbin/init
CP > 			init/etc/init.d
CP > 
CP > bootfrom=/dev/hda1/*.iso	->	bootfrom=/dev/ida/c0d0p2/*.iso
CP > 					bootfrom=/dev/ida/c0d0p1/*.iso
CP > 	
CP > bootfrom=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00/*.iso
CP > 
CP > The changed the init line because FC4 has no init file in /etc.  I wasn't
CP > sure if /etc/init was intended to be a file or directory, so I tried
CP > /sbin/init (a file) and the directory init.d.  I also tried the strange
CP > "ida/c0d0p1" because fdisk reports this as the boot partition and there is
CP > no "hda1" shown in fstab.  I also tried the "VolGroup00/LogVol00" because
CP > the menu.1st file has an option root=/dev/ VolGroup00/LogVol00 when booting
CP > into the "resident" Fedora Core 4 OS (kernel version 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp).
CP > 
CP > Each time I reboot, I receive the same error message as above.
CP > 
CP > What am I missing?  I'm afraid I'm very much a linux newbie (does it show?)
CP > and any help would be appreciated.
CP > 
CP > Cecil 
CP >