Dual booting with GRUB Legacy

Tue May 07, 2013 9:05 pm

Hello everybody:

I want to dual-boot KolibriOS with Syllable Desktop, but when I select KolibriOS to boot, the following appears on the screen:

Booting 'KolibriOS'

kernel (hd0,3)/boot/memdisk
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x600, size=0x4658]

MEMDISK 3.36 2007-02-10 Copyright 2001-2007 H. Peter Anvin
MEMDISK: No ramdisk image specified!

I used the Memdisk version I found in the newest KolibriOS package.

Can anyone help me out?

Tue May 07, 2013 9:24 pm

Try this please: http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/Booting_from_GRUB

Tue May 07, 2013 10:14 pm

How can I do step 3?

Tue May 07, 2013 10:26 pm

D-Kontroller wrote:How can I do step 3?

I don't have Linux myself now, so I can't check it for you, but it's working.
Here is a complete installation instruction (it is also available inside the distribution ZIP file that you have downloaded): http://websvn.kolibrios.org/filedetails ... NSTALL.TXT
Look for section II. Install to hard disk.

Tue May 07, 2013 11:05 pm

kernel (hd0,3)/boot/memdisk
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x600, size=0x4658]

so, set your initrd to (hd0,3)/boot/kolibri.img
That's all.

Wed May 08, 2013 7:25 pm

SoUrcerer: Didn't work, got the same message

Mon May 20, 2013 3:30 pm

D-Kontroller, are you sure that kernel+initrd are in the same section? Assuming that kolibri.img resides in the same folder /boot as memdisk, this should be like

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label KolibriOS
kernel (hd0,3)/boot/memdisk
initrd (hd0,3)/boot/kolibri.img

in consequtive lines.
If this still doesn't work, try

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label KolibriOS
kernel (hd0,3)/boot/memdisk
append initrd=(hd0,3)/boot/kolibri.img

Dual booting with GRUB Legacy

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