Frugal Install

[mwhit95]

I tried to do a frugal install like I saw in another post but it won't continue booting.  This is the error that I get:

no setup sigaturre found

This is my grub line:

title Tiny Core on hda3 (tce=hda3/tcZ restore=hda3/tc_backup nolocal)
kernel (hd0,2)/tinycore/bzImage quiet restore=hda3/tc_backup nolocal tce=hda3/tcZ
#kernel (hd0,2)/tinycore/bzImage quiet tz=US/Pacific base norestore nolocal xsetup
initrd (hd0,2)/tinycore/tinycore.gz 

Thanks,
Mke

[roberts]

Instead of trying to copy existing grub lines, tell us where you have copied your bzImage and tinycore.gz?

Also, I would start off with a simpler setup without using sub-directories such as:

title Tiny Core on hda3 (tce=hda3 restore=hda3 nolocal)
kernel (hd0,2)/bzImage quiet restore=hda3  nolocal tce=hda3
initrd (hd0,2)/tinycore.gz

[mikshaw]

no setup sigaturre found

Are you using a grub that was already installed on your machine?  I've had this error when trying to boot a 2.6 kernel using an older version of Grub that was already installed.  Upgrading Grub fixed it. 

[skipshearer]

I spent a couple of hours last night on the same issue. I was getting the same message about "no setup sigature found".

I was tring to do a frugel install using a copy of /boot/grub from DSL 4.4.10. The problem is due to the newer kernel not being compatible with older versions of grub.

I upgraded grub to .97. TCL frugel booted no problem!

[mwhit95]

Thanks for the replies.  I am using an older verison of grub that was installed with DSL 3.0.  I  didn't want to create a new partition and just put bzimage and tinycore.gz in a directory on my hda3  Before I upgrade my grub will the new version will it break my windows 98, DSL 3.0, Limp, and Blueflops booting?

[^thehatsrule^]

If you use the same setup, it should retain and reuse your same config (i.e. menu.lst)
You could always back that up first if you want.

[mwhit95]

Good news and bad news.  First the good news I downloaded the boot floppy and updated the menu.1st file and everything boots great from the floppy.  Bad news I don't know how to install grub and copied the files from the floppy to my old DSL boot directory and now the harddrive boot doesn't work.  I am going to try some of the stuff from this web page:

http://josephhall.org/grub_install_hda1.html