dumb question.
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Sun, 2014-06-08 09:52
ringding
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- 2014-06-08
A really dumb question:
how do you boot alpine when installed to harddrive? I installed from cd using setup; tried to reboot, got message "no operating system".
Using gparted, saw that alpine had installed as "sda2" over the entire disk, overwriting a previous sda1(dos) partition. Moved and shrank
the sda2 to reinstall dos/grub4dos,etc.; but looking at tha alpine partition using puppylive cd, found no vmlinuz,no initrd, no core.gz.
By the way when booting alpine from cd, found it impossible to install xfce4, got this file missing,that dir missing,etc; I know I had connectivity,
since something downloaded.
My bad; experimented with usb-flash install, and everything worked perfectly. I had misunderstood install instructions and chose 'data' for install mode;
should have been 'sys'.
Still have the problem of multibooting alpine with other os's,preferably with grub4dos. When I made the lame install, I had a dos/windows(fat32)
partition at sda1,and linux mint at sda2; I expected the alpine to use the entire harddrive, which it did,but the one big partition came out as sda2.
I moved it and shrank it,reinstalling the fat 32 as sda1,using gparted.
So, I am still at a loss as to how to boot the alpine on sda2 using grub4dos. Do you suppose loadlin could do the trick from dos?But how?
Where is there a build script for flahplayer in alpine?