booting with bootmagic

**thomasd1** · 01-10-2004

hi,
so i got winXP and Rh Linux 9
i can boot to xp with bootmagic,
but when i wanna boot linux, it says like, "preparing machine to boot linux"
and is stays like that... wich means it probably wouln't boot to linux

so, for XP i chose the firstpartition (selected) (and the last one is my backuppartition)
for linux i used pri 2 and 3 and none of 'em work ... the keep saying "preparing machine to boot linux"

now when i first installed linux i was using the linux boot thingie, but with that i couldn't boot to winXP ...
so i used my bootmagicdiskette, to start XP again, then tried to boot to linux again wich didn't work, then winXP again and now i'm here writing this post to you all, (yes i tried google 'n stuff)

so if someone knows something ... help is welcome

owyeah, i also saw something about "unhiding partitions" or something when i used the bootmagicdiskette

and when i use the linux bootdiskette, i push enter and it says, "loading vmlinuz...." and then "could not load ...... please insert disc" ...

**Hellmasker** · 01-10-2004

i dont think it will work that way because linux has no boot info stored anywhere but on mbr, which u just overwrote. I have had both linux bootloaders loading xp, try that again and psot up any problems u have.

to get the linux bootloader to come back put in your install cd and get to a rescue console. if u need help with this, again, post back here.

**Dolda2000** · 01-10-2004

May I ask why you don't want to use a Linux boot loader like LILO or GRUB?

In any case, see if your system works correctly by doing this:
1. Go to my home page (link at bottom of post)
2. Download rawrite.exe and grub.img from it (under the "Useful files" section)
3. Use rawrite.exe to write grub.img to a discardable floppy
4. Boot from that floppy
5. Enter these commands (enter after each):

Code:

root &#40;hd0,2&#41;
kernel /boot/vmlinuz<Press TAB here> root=0303 ro
initrd /boot/initrd<Press TAB here>
boot

If everything works as it should, RedHat should now be booting. If then you decide to use GRUB instead, just open a terminal, become root by running "su -", and run the command "grub-install /dev/hda".

**thomasd1** · 01-10-2004

Code:

Kernel panic&#58; No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel.

**Dolda2000** · 01-10-2004

Oh yes... there is something weird with RedHat's initrd that causes this, if I recall correctly.

Try using only this command instead:

Code:

configfile /boot/grub/grub.conf

That should use RedHat's GRUB configuration instead.

**thomasd1** · 01-10-2004

you the man

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