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From: Mauricio Contreras on 15 Apr 2010 19:20 I have a dual boot setup and was using Lenny booting GRUB from a floppy. The floppy is busted, now when I use Supergrub to boot there's no sound. Is there any way either I can recreate the boot disk from the system to another floppy or a new CD? This Lenny install worked wonderfully! Mauricio Contreras Buenos Aires -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/q2wc6ab51531004151615s36fdcd21g3f2609daff2dd06e(a)mail.gmail.com
From: Camaleón on 16 Apr 2010 07:10 On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:15:12 -0300, Mauricio Contreras wrote: > I have a dual boot setup and was using Lenny booting GRUB from a floppy. > The floppy is busted, now when I use Supergrub to boot there's no sound. > > Is there any way either I can recreate the boot disk from the system to > another floppy or a new CD? This Lenny install worked wonderfully! You mean there is no sound "after" you login? I fail to see any relation with that fact (no sound) and the bootloader being located in a floppy disk or SuperGrubDisk so I would investigate first why the sound stopped from working. OTOH, shouldn't be easier to keep the bootloader installed natively into the hard disk, either MBR or first sector of a partition rather than in a floppy disk? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.04.16.11.04.22(a)gmail.com
From: Mauricio Contreras on 16 Apr 2010 09:50 On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Camaleón <noelamac(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:15:12 -0300, Mauricio Contreras wrote: > >> I have a dual boot setup and was using Lenny booting GRUB from a floppy. >> The floppy is busted, now when I use Supergrub to boot there's no sound. >> >> Is there any way either I can recreate the boot disk from the system to >> another floppy or a new CD? This Lenny install worked wonderfully! > > You mean there is no sound "after" you login? > > I fail to see any relation with that fact (no sound) and the bootloader > being located in a floppy disk or SuperGrubDisk so I would investigate > first why the sound stopped from working. > > OTOH, shouldn't be easier to keep the bootloader installed natively into > the hard disk, either MBR or first sector of a partition rather than in a > floppy disk? > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian..org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.04.16.11.04.22(a)gmail.com > > Dear Camaleon: I recovered sound in Lenny after booting with SuperGrub and running alsaconf as root. I picked up my old SoundBlaster Live card and the emu10k1 module with alsaconf and set it up as the main sound card (there's also an integrated AC'97 in the motherboard) card with index=0. Then sound came back. I'm surprised because when I installed Lenny with netinst sound was on from the beginning. I added Flash from the non free repository, installed it, and I listened to YouTube. I was all set. I was very happy booting Lenny from a floppy, but when my floppy screwed up I had no backup floppy (dumb) and used SuperGrub. At the first boot there was no system sound; Amarok, Juk nor Flash videos worked. I was using Squeeze and the problems were worse with sound, Flash, and Grub2, so I installed Lenny. My disks are set up as follows: IDE 80 GB hda: 2 partitions hd0, 40 GB --- windows xp boot; hd1, 40 GB --- windows xp data files SATA 80 GB sda 1 partition sda 80 GB -- windows data files SATA 500 GB sdb 1 partition sdb (??) 500 GB ---lenny I haven't been able to configure Grub 0.94 to boot in this setup so I have used SuperGrub or a bootable floppy with Lenny. Could you point me to an appropiate grub setup? Mauricio Contreras Buenos Aires, Argentina. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/w2gc6ab51531004160648o6e71c347s3e31ddf68c258b39(a)mail.gmail.com
From: Camaleón on 16 Apr 2010 10:50
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:48:10 -0300, Mauricio Contreras wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> You mean there is no sound "after" you login? >> >> I fail to see any relation with that fact (no sound) and the bootloader >> being located in a floppy disk or SuperGrubDisk so I would investigate >> first why the sound stopped from working. (...) > I recovered sound in Lenny after booting with SuperGrub and running > alsaconf as root. I picked up my old SoundBlaster Live card and the > emu10k1 module with alsaconf and set it up as the main sound card > (there's also an integrated AC'97 in the motherboard) card with index=0. > Then sound came back. Ah, that makes more sense to me :-) (...) > My disks are set up as follows: > > IDE 80 GB hda: 2 partitions > hd0, 40 GB --- windows xp boot; > hd1, 40 GB --- windows xp data files > SATA 80 GB sda 1 partition > sda 80 GB -- windows data files > SATA 500 GB > sdb 1 partition sdb (??) 500 GB ---lenny > > I haven't been able to configure Grub 0.94 to boot in this setup so I > have used SuperGrub or a bootable floppy with Lenny. Could you point me > to an appropiate grub setup? Well, it seems you have 3 physical hard disks, with windows installed in the first partition of the IDE hdd and Lenny in the second SATA (500 GiB). First you have to do is *to know* what hard disk is being booted in first place by the BIOS ("IDE 80" -windows- or "SATA 500" -lenny-). After that, put here the results of your findings and we will see what could be the better setup for installing GRUB :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.04.16.14.44.41(a)gmail.com |