[ug-bosug] belenix h/d install boot issue

[Sriram Narayanan]

On 6/25/06, Anil Gulecha <anilgulecha at gmail.com> wrote:
> The install was succesful:
>
>  I had 2 partrions on the 40 gb hdd before
>  1. ( cylinder 1-1534)
>  2. (1535-end..)
>
>  I first deleted the 13 gb partition. the partition manager showed :
>  1. (1535-..)
>
>  Then i crated a partitin giving the cylinder value from (1-1534)
>
>  The PM showed:
>  1. ( 1535-..)
>  2. (1- 1534)
>
>  Note that the first physical cylinder was shown second on the list.. I
> formatted this as a solaris partition(which is ufs i think).
>
>  The install went smoothly to 100% (although there were some display
> formatting issues, the errors were overwritten on the progress bar).
>
>  I skipped the JDK install and rebooted. GRUB showed 2 options (with acpi
> and w/o acpi). When I tried to run the first i got an error, somehting like
> :
>
>  cannot boot root (hd1,1,a).
>
>  I went to edit and tinkered until i tried root(hd0,1,a), which successfully
> booted the commandline. the 108 SMFs were loaded.
>
Congratulations :)

>  The end result is i have to change the hd1 to hd0 everytime i boot and i
> can only boot to the text mode commandline. How do I edit this permanently?
>

edit /boot/grub/menu.lst using vi.

>  How do I start off KDE? What are the commands I have to run/ config files
> I've to edit, to boot directly to the graphic mode?
>

startkde and startxfce4 will start X with the corresponding X environment.


>  Regards
>  Anil
>
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