On 11/6/06, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Christoph Maier wrote:
> It seems that only device.map and menu.lst are readable.
> No trace of /boot/grub/grub.conf
> My more or less educated guess would be that I need to be looking
> into /boot/grub/menu.lst .
>
Yeah menu.lst seems to be the ubuntu way. The name of the conf file
seems to live in the "stage2" program. Don't know the history --
presumeably there was some difference of opinions, somewhere.
PS, when you get around to experimenting with installing additional
distributions, remember that the kernel and grub files have to be on a
"plain" partition (not LVM). The filesystem root can be LVM-- just not
/boot (the initrd magic makes lvm available _after_ loading the kernel).
Be aware that there will be some fussy grub reconfiguration needed after
installing each addtional OS. I've found at least 2 ways of getting
comfortable with the process, but it's messy to describe as well as
execute -- so maybe that those recipes should be posted separately,
maybe to the wiki?. I'm sure cdl and others have their own ways of doing
it, as well.
Regards,
..jim
I just bit the bullet and re-installed Fedora Core 6, with the
bootloader installed to one of Fedora's partitions (/root?). I got a
grub.conf, identified the stanza for Fedora, and pasted it into
ubuntu's /boot/grub/menu.lst .
It works
[modulo hostname, which I would like to set without having to
reinstall yet again ... it's probably not entirely trivial to hunt
down all the configuration files I need to update].
I don't feel that my antics are quite organized well enough for a
wiki, but now that you have given me access to
http://www.kernel-panic.org , I'm keeping track of my experiments in a
"Hamburger LUGnut" blog.
It should be relatively easy to distill the information into wikis, if
warranted.
And now for trying to get the hostname problem solved ...
Christoph
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