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Offline quellen

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How to edit GRUB 0.91
« on: November 12, 2014, 07:28:58 AM »
Hi,
i have installed TINYCORE (Frugal without bootloader) on a old PC with DSL and Windows 2000.
now how can i add Tinycore in the menu of GRUB 0.91(I had installed it with DSL)?


this is my /boot/grub/menu.lst of DSL:
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# This sets the default entry to boot.
# Remember that GRUB counts from 0, so 1 is the second entry.

default 0

# This sets the length of time in seconds that grub will wait for the user to select an OS
# before it boots the default on. I reccommend at least 15 seconds.

timeout 1

# Enter the entry for DSL here. Something like this.

#title DSL
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

title Damn Small Linux 4.4.10
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=791 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeacive
chainloader +1

#title DSL with toram, mydsl, restore, hostname, and passwords
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi frugal dma toram mydsl=hda5 restore=hda5 host=DSL1 secure

#title DSL with XFree86
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi frugal dma toram mydsl=hda5/xfree restore=hda6 host=DSL1 secure

#title DSL with mydsl, restore, persistentancy, hostname, and passwords
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi frugal dma toram mydsl=hda3 restore=hda3 home=hda3 opt=hda3 host=DSL1 secure

#title DSL Runlevel 2
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi nodma frugal 2 base norestore

#title DSL Check filesystem(s)
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi nodma frugal 2 toram legacy base norestore checkfs

#title Windows
#root (hd0,0)
#chainloader +1
#makeactive
#boot
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default optons below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
# kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,0)

## should update-grub create alternative boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
##      alternative=false
# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
##      lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
##      altoptions=(recovery mode) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
##      howmany=7
# howmany=all

## ## End Default Options ##

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

« Last Edit: November 12, 2014, 07:58:23 AM by quellen »

Offline Juanito

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Re: How to edit GRUB 0.91
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2014, 08:18:38 AM »
It's a little out of date but see:

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:installing_tc_-_alternate_offline_guide?s[]=grub

Depending on which version of tinycore you'd like to use, substitute core.gz for tinycore.gz and vmlinuz for bzImage
« Last Edit: November 12, 2014, 09:10:38 AM by Juanito »

Offline xyz-worx

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Re: How to edit GRUB 0.91
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2014, 02:09:24 PM »
Hi quellen,

I had a very similar configuration several years ago (WIN 98 & DSL 4.4.10).  To get TCL (V3.8.4) booting
I had to upgrade GRUB to version 0.97. With this I can run WIN98, DSL and TCL started via GRUB-menu.
Up to now I did not upgrade TCL to version 4.x or 5.x. But you could give GRUB 0.97 a try.

regards
xyz-worx

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Re: How to edit GRUB 0.91
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2014, 02:16:47 PM »
Yep, you need to upgrade grub, the original DSL version cannot boot newer 2.6 kernels. I think I contributed 0.97 into one of the mydsl sections back then, so you can update it from DSL if needed.
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

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Re: How to edit GRUB 0.91
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2014, 05:21:45 PM »
thanks,
how can i update GRUB?
in "MyDSL repository" the last vesion is 0.95.

Can I update it from TinyCore? (i can run it with a floppy disk with PLOP Boot Manager)

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Re: How to edit GRUB 0.91
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2014, 04:04:12 AM »
Yes, if you can boot TC, you can install grub from TC. See our old manual install page (linked from the main install page).
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

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Re: How to edit GRUB 0.91
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2014, 02:31:08 PM »
ok, i have installed GRUB2 from TinyCore and I edited grub.cfg.
"TinyCore" and "Windows 2000" work, but DSL doesn't work. when I select it on GRUB2 the notebook reboot :-(
why?

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$ cat /mnt/sda1/boot/grub/grub.cfg
menuentry "TinyCore" {
                set root=hd0,1
                chainloader +1
                }

menuentry "Damn Small Linux 4.4.10" {
                linux /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=791 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal               
}
menuentry "Windows 2000" {
                set root=hd0,2
                chainloader +1
                }


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$ ls -l /mnt/sda1/boot/
total 1572
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            17 Nov 14 19:55 System.map -> System.map-2.4.31
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        588029 Nov 14 19:55 System.map-2.4.31
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          4096 Nov 14 19:01 grub/
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       1005209 Nov 14 19:55 linux24

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$ ls -l /mnt/sda1/boot/grub/
total 212
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            90 Nov 14 18:54 device.map
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          7904 Nov 14 18:54 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          7440 Nov 14 18:54 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          6912 Nov 14 18:54 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           449 Nov 14 19:42 grub.cfg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          1024 Nov 14 18:56 grubenv
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          8192 Nov 14 18:56 i386-pc/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          8640 Nov 14 18:54 jfs_stage1_5
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Nov 14 18:56 locale/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          2703 Nov 14 18:54 menu.lst
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          1687 Nov 14 18:54 menu.lst~
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          7104 Nov 14 18:54 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          9568 Nov 14 18:54 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           512 Nov 14 18:54 stage1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         95712 Nov 14 18:54 stage2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          6560 Nov 14 18:54 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          9320 Nov 14 18:54 xfs_stage1_5

in my hard disk I have 4 partitions:
/dev/sda1 ext2 (DSL 4.4.10 + TinyCore)
/dev/sda2 fat32 Windows 2000
/dev/sda3 swap
/dev/sda4 fat32 Pictures of naked women :-)

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$ ls -l /mnt/sda1/
total 120
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 May 19 20:25 bin/
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          4096 Nov 14 19:56 boot/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Apr 15  2001 cdrom/
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         32768 Nov 12 19:02 dev/
drwxr-xr-x   59 root     root          4096 Nov 12 19:02 etc/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Apr 15  2001 floppy/
drwxrwsr-x    3 root     staff         4096 May 15  2014 home/
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root          4096 May 20 21:50 lib/
drwx------    2 root     root         16384 May 15  2014 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root          4096 Oct 21 15:59 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Jun  6  2003 none/
drwxrwsr-x   19 root     staff         4096 Nov  2 15:37 opt/
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Sep 23  2003 proc/
drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root          4096 May 15  2014 root/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 May 19 20:19 sbin/
drwxrwxr-x    8 tc       staff         4096 Nov 14 11:33 tce/
drwsrwxrwx   10 root     staff         4096 Nov 12 19:02 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root          4096 May 15  2014 usr/
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root          4096 May 15  2014 var/

Offline quellen

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Re: How to edit GRUB 0.91
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2014, 06:56:18 AM »
I SOLVED:

1. I boot DSL from a floppy disk with GRUB 0.97
2. I installed grub 0.9.1 from DSL
3. I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst adding this:
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title TinyCore Linux
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeacive
chainloader +1