HD Install :: Frugal Install on old laptop



I'm still working on it, but have no idea what to do when I boot it without the CD and it just says

grub>




Am I supposed to get this? If I am, what then? And wet, what options did you choose during the frugal install - what daemons, etc, cause most of the settings I wasnt sure as to what they did.
Still working on it, but I can't figure out what to do after it just says grub>


Any help please? I'm hopelessly lost on this part.
O.K, I'm talking through my ....."hat" here,
but you seem to be booting into a Grub
bootloader shell, do you have another unix
OS on the machine?
Perhaps this is left over from an old installation,
I would have thought that the LILO bootloader
which runs in Frugal install would have overwritten
the MBR.
You can perhaps still boot your DSL, if you Google
search for the "GRUB manual", it will tell you how to directly
boot an OS from the shell.

Perhaps someone else who uses grub shell on a regular
basis would like to chime in here.

I've just done a Frugal on an old machine to see what Frugal
was about, because I couldn't find out enough about it with searches.
I was unaware that Lilo would overwrite MBR, and then couldn't
get to pre-existing Dos and DSL HD installs.
Tried modifying RS's frugal_instal.sh to include these, but
so far have trouble including DSL HD install on hda5.
Maybe better to install Grub in DSL HD installed system
and use Grub to boot the others.

Anyhoo, thats the only idea that springs to mind right now
- good luck with it!


:)
Yea, I'm installing this over SUSE Linux.

I'll try the GRUB manual now, but I'm pretty sure I used it already and got nothing. How can I install DSL with Lilo so it just boots into it?
Well, it was my experience that during Frugal
install, lilo is invoked by the frugal_instal.sh
script, using a lilo.config which is put into the
/boot directory of the targeted partition, the lilo.conf
is part of the script.
Look at roberts frugal_instal.sh script when you're
running the live cd, its in /usr/sbin or /sbin....
one of those /sbins.
This runs to the exclusion of other OSs, so you won't
have your Suse included in lilo- only DSL Frug.
I don't know why this didn't happen on your original
frugal install......
Keep on trying with Grub though.
It'll be a while until I can get back to playing around with Grub.
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