[Voyage-linux] voyage on ALIX 2c2 not booting (linux novice)

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Mathieu,

I also do not know why lilo work but grub doesn't.  But it is based on 
my experience and some reported problems.  See this thread:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.voyage.general/2276

Regards,
Punky

Mathieu Simon wrote:
> Hi Punky and all who tried helping me
>
> Indeed, switching from grub to lilo made it. Why?!
>
> I have a usb cardreader, which could also have caused some 
> disturbances and the darn usb automounting of my xfce desktop. I had 
> less strange output during format-cf.sh using in console-only mode 
> than in xfce, but grub didn't work as well. I checked too, if the 
> partition was set bootable, and it was. Strange... My system is lenny 
> (testing), could it be that it only works with etch?
>
> I hope that the rest will work as well and hope voyage will be growing 
> further.
> Big thx for all the answers and hints!
>
> Mathieu
>
>
> 2008/7/28 Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com 
> <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com>>
>
>     If you can't get the grub prompt, you can try the lilo as a
>     bootloader and see if it works.  This sometimes happens if you are
>     running voyage.update on a non-Debian host for installing to CF.
>
>     Regards,
>     Punky
>
>
>


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Regards,
Punky

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