masinick - back then we fixed it in antiX-11. However, grub-common has changed in how it detects the root partition and gives the error. There doesn't seem to be a fix for this, unless we get user input when installing ie user has to tell us/the installer what and where are existing distros installed.

The 'simple' solution is to use grub2, but it is extremely ugly and complicated to edit at the moment.

anticapitalista wrote:masinick - back then we fixed it in antiX-11. However, grub-common has changed in how it detects the root partition and gives the error. There doesn't seem to be a fix for this, unless we get user input when installing ie user has to tell us/the installer what and where are existing distros installed.

The 'simple' solution is to use grub2, but it is extremely ugly and complicated to edit at the moment.

Yeah, I agree. I use GRUB 2, but the thing I least like about it is when I want to do something different than what it does by default, it's a big problem. Remind you of any really large, proprietary software companies you can think of?

That said, I can get it to work for me, but then again, I am not your"typical" user, whomever that may be, so you are right; it is a dilemma.

grub2 and os-prober get my vote, of course I am not a regular antix user and likely never will be....but still....

Hi again, wrt the problem I have encountered with some machines failing to boot, I tried again with ThinkPad z60m which stalled at the APPEND message. Afraid the machine could not be prodded into getting any further. So if you have a patch for the RC2 iso I will try to apply it to the iso image I have and see if that helps things along. As I struck this on several machines it seems it might damage the brand if released to the world at large.

gnomic - the delta patch is uploaded to here (rc2-final.delta):


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How to apply the delta patch is here - xdelta3:


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anticapitalista wrote:fatmac - I hope so too, but TBH I wouldn't put any money on it.
There appears to be an issue in installing grub-legacy and writing a correct menu.list as if they are no longer compatible. For example, the root section of the menu.list is written wrongly, ie root ( ,0) or if root section is not written, some distros do not boot.

For the SDHC card, did you install grub to the MBR of the device? Give us some details so we can try and get it sorted.

Yes, I installed from a live pendrive, just as one would install to an internal HDD.

Luckily for me, someone had had a similar problem, & gave an explaination of what had gone wrong.
S/he had a missing 'root' entry in boot/grub/menu.lst; & I worked out my problem from that.

(How else can I help? I have a second SDHC card that I could use for experiments.)