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Josh.Harvey
10th January 2009, 11:24 PM
Hey guys,
I am totally new to linux and fedora and what have you so if i come across as a "noob" as such then i apologise. :)

Basically i have this Compaq Armada M700 ( Ancient laptop ) and the disk drive for it has packed up, So i googled and tried to find a way to boot the installation to boot from my hard drive and eventually i found one called GRUB4DOS. I did all the things the tutorial told me ect and it booted to GRUB4DOS fine. I have an external hard drive that i would like to boot the installation from and i get to here and then i dont know what do to..

Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue boot sequence.

bash: no job control in this shell


Not too sure what i do next. Any ideas ?

Any help i would be most grateful for.

Thanks,
Josh :)
Nokia
10th January 2009, 11:31 PM
You're unclear. And we cannot guess what tutorial you followed.

If you cannot boot USB, then you need a chainload to the USB. But that's just a guess. You should find out first how and if that grub4dos sees the usb hdd.
Josh.Harvey
10th January 2009, 11:35 PM

You're unclear. And we cannot guess what tutorial you followed.

If you cannot boot USB, then you need a chainload to the USB. But that's just a guess. You should find out first how and if that grub4dos sees the usb hdd.

This problebly has nothing to do with what your mentioning but after the error i mentioned above it does come up with the details of the USB device. I know that problebly isnt relevant but might help mentioning that maybe.
Omega Blue
11th January 2009, 09:42 AM
The easiest way to install, if there's a spare IDE connector in the machine, is to connect a DVD or CD drive to it...
Cwix127
11th January 2009, 10:31 AM
The easiest way to install, if there's a spare IDE connector in the machine, is to connect a DVD or CD drive to it...

He said it was an ancient laptop...
Josh.Harvey
11th January 2009, 11:42 AM
I do have an external pcmcia slot cd drive but that only boots when windows
boots. Unless there is a way to boot from that without windows but on startup. The floppy drive works fine.. That's inserted instead of the CD drive and an external CD drive is in the PCMCIA slot. But if I could do that it would make things so much easier.