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Thriftee

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Registered: 2014-09-22

Posts: 31

Installed 5.0 rc2 from DVD, but grub4dos gets error

I am installing the 5.0 rc2 cooking 4 in 1 version to an HP dv9700 laptop with 2 hard drives.  It boots to the live dvd fine and the installer runs fine, i told it to install to sda13 and to install the bootloader, thinking it would install grub2, but it installed grub4dos.  It finished the install ok, and says its ok to reboot into the new system.

It then try to boot, and a grub4dos screen comes up with only one option for [c]slitaz gnu/linux 5.0 (kernel vmlinuz-3.2.53-slitaz)[/c], and all the other operating systems are missing.  I hit enter to boot it, and it gets an error on the 1st line.

[c]root (hd,12)[/c]

error 23: error while parsing number

press any key to continue

i press enter and it goes back to the boot screen.  so i think maybe it should say

[c]root (hd0,12)[/c]

because i have 2 drives, so i e to edit and change it.  the 2nd line reads

[c]kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.53-slitaz root=/dev/sda13 quiet[/c]

i type b to boot

but i just get a /# prompt and what looks to be an error screen, with a list of very limited shell commands, but no obvious error. 

i tried installing 2 times and both times can't boot.

i can boot to the live dvd again, but need to get back to where i can boot from the hard drive

It looks as though i am looking at the hard drive, and the install ran, but didn't actually install anything because all directories are empty except /dev and many directories I would expect to see are missing, like /boot and /home and /var

Maybe I am just not doing something correctly in the install process?

If there is a document someplace that tells a normal install sequence from dvd to hard drive of the live system, that would be helpful...

Thriftee

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Registered: 2014-09-22

Posts: 31

Re: Installed 5.0 rc2 from DVD, but grub4dos gets error

I did it again, but this time I put a usb in with the packages-cooking.iso file on it, and I installed midnight commander, and when I do an su I notice that my new root password has not taken effect, so I am still running the live dvd system after the install. 

And if I do a find files for vmlinuz-3.2.53-slitaz the only places it finds the file are on in /media/cdrom and /mnt/packages/boot.

It looks to me like it hasn't installed the boot files, and I don't know what I did wrong?

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Installed 5.0 rc2 from DVD, but grub4dos gets error

Slitaz-5.0-rc2 wouldn't boot full install on usb.

Sounds like it could be the same problem.

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/install-slitaz-rc-2-on-a-usb-drive

I had to boot live cd chroot the install and do a full update.

My tutorial for chroot starts here:

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/install-slitaz-rc-2-on-a-usb-drive#post-32308

Thriftee

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Registered: 2014-09-22

Posts: 31

Re: Installed 5.0 rc2 from DVD, but grub4dos gets error

Thanks for the reply, mojo

well, the 1st part of that got the packages to actually load, ie i could see them loading.  after seeing that, i'm not really sure what the installer actually did or didn't do, but anyway, i've bookmarked your instructions.

But I still couldn't get grub to install, so then i punted, and rebooted from a manjaro cd, and used their chroot instructions to get that os back running, and then used its grub2 to get the machine bootable, and that managed to make my slitaz bootable too

lol, it was a roundabout way to get there and a bit scary not being able to boot the hard drive, but it looks like its working ok, now.  i'll install a couple of my favorite apps to make sure.

thanks again