Installing from a hard drive partition using grub.

[coltson]

I an article to install linux directly from the hard drive, where it says:

From the terminal enter these commands

sudo mkdir /distro
sudo chmod `whoami`:`whoami`
cp MYLINUX.iso /distro/distro.iso

Now extract Linux_kernel & Ram_disk to /distro#

Open /boot/grub/menu.lst

#ADD NEW ENTRY#
title Install Linux
root (hdX,X)
kernel /distro/Linux_kernel
initrd /distro/Ram_disk

Reboot and select "Install Linux" from grub.

So, I decided to use it to install the latest Slackware.
Copied the kernel from kernels/huge.s/bzImage and the ramdisk from isolinux/initrd.img

However,when I rebooted,I received this:

Booting Install Linux
root (hd0,6)
Filesystem Type unknow, partition type 0X82
kernel /abaco/distro/bzImage

Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition

So what I am doing wrong?

Thanks for the help

[bonesTdog]

I have never heard of this but it looks interesting. Do you suppose it may work on Grub2 better than Grub and edit your grub.cfg instead of menu.lst? Do you have this article online that you can send me the link? I would be interested in trying it.

[coltson]

Do you suppose it may work on Grub2 better than Grub

I really have no idea.

and edit your grub.cfg instead of menu.lst

Here I don't have a grub.cfg

Do you have this article online that you can send me the link? I would be interested in trying it.

I will send it through private message since as a new member I cannot post
direct links