--On Thursday, June 30, 2005 15:40 -0700 Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Holy Scheiße, I thought maybe my email had been sucked up by the > inter-server packet monster, never to see the light of reason again! > > On 6/28/05, Karl Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would manually edit the existing booloader. > > Yes. Good suggestion. > >> The trick is to figure out what to tell grub > > Yes. That's the trick. A trick I don't have in my spellbook. I've > only ever (really) used Slackware and Gentoo. Slackware was before > GRUB existed, and Gentoo's installation manual tells you exactly > what's needed for its GRUB listing. The quick search I did on the > World Wide Internet revealed no clues to how an FC4 should be booted. > I guess the installer normally handles it and people don't *have* to > know. > > So, maybe another question I could ask is, What's a typical GRUB entry > for an FC4 install? I'm confident I can chain my MBR-residing Gentoo > grub.conf to the GRUB in FC4's /boot (or just add the /boot and kernel > information for FC4 to that file), I'm just not sure how, on the first > count, and with what, on the second. > > Can you teach me the trick? I'm not sure I completely know it, but we can probably figure it out. Someone else might have been through this or know the answers but I'm happy to help as much as I can. Questions: 1. Did you already install FC4? 2. Do you need any modules to boot FC4? 3. On which partition is FC4's /boot directory? If you haven't I think you should install FC4 at this point. Somewhere in the installation you should be able to tell it you want to use your own bootloader, and let it do as much as it can. Then boot to gentoo (or knoppix) and find where FC4 put things like a file that starts with 'initrd'. Probably you'll need to mount the FC4 partition and look for a directory called /boot under that. Once FC4 is installed, you can boot to Gentoo and type 'grub' at the command line as root. Then you can enter grub commands like 'find boot/bzImage'. The following is a grub.conf sample for FC4 from the Internet. Yours will undoubtedly be different: title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img The initrd is an initial ramdisk image that includes enough modules to boot the system (according to question 2 above). Let me know when you've installed FC4. Karl -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
