[debian-non-standard] Debian on Thecus5200: how to read ide 44-pin

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Wed Aug 13 09:48:09 CEST 2008


elmer at leet.la schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> It works perfectly with a usb/cdrom. I installed my prefered 
> distribution (archlinux)
> Now im fighting with grub & lilo. At boot sequence, it says it cant find 
> the root (Root device '/dev/hda1' doesn't exist, attempting to create it)

Can you boot from the CDROM?

The easiest would be to boot off a CDROM, plug in the USB-stick.
Mount the filesystem on the USB-stick, and do lilo -r /mnt/usb_stick.

For grub, use grub-install command.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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