unable to grub1 boot new install MX18.

[garthur]

Installed frugal from DVD to: /dev/sda8 (all good)
Copied lines from /mnt/sda8/antiX-Frugal-4.19.0-5-amd64/grub.entry
Put into grub1 menu.lst

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-mx18 bdir=antiX-Frugal-4.19.0-5-amd64 buuid=8c8abf92-9c9c-43f1-9e30-511292cfbf05 nosplash lang=en_AU tz=Australia/Sydney persist_all
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-mx18.img

Fails unable to mount /dev onto /root/dev
Fails unable to find /sbin/init

HP PRODESK Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz Memory 16336MB
Any suggestions?

[anticapitalista]

Since you are using legacy grub (you mention menu.lst), you will need to edit the provided grub.entry to make it grub1 compliant.

[garthur]

for me: grub1 = legacy grub.
I updated the menu.lst file, the important lines included in 1st post.
This is how I got antiX-17 to boot.

[fehlix]

Installed frugal from DVD to: /dev/sda8 (all good)
Copied lines from /mnt/sda8/antiX-Frugal-4.19.0-5-amd64/grub.entry
Put into grub1 menu.lst

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-mx18 bdir=antiX-Frugal-4.19.0-5-amd64 buuid=8c8abf92-9c9c-43f1-9e30-511292cfbf05 nosplash lang=en_AU tz=Australia/Sydney persist_all
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-mx18.img

perhaps change first to /dev/sda8 , which I think in GRUB1 is (hd0,7) ( in Grub2 it would be (hd0,8) )
and adjust:

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kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz-mx18 bdir=antiX-Frugal-4.19.0-5-amd64 buuid=8c8abf92-9c9c-43f1-9e30-511292cfbf05 nosplash lang=en_AU tz=Australia/Sydney persist_all
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd-mx18.img

HTH

[anticapitalista]

Ah yes.

Shouldn't (hd0,0) be something like (hd0,7) if the frugal install is on sda8?

[garthur]

All my kernels and init ram fs files are in sda1 because grub1 wont access the higher partitions.

My fault. somehow I copied the wrong initrd file. all good now.