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From: "Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lug Bom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:36:36 +0530
Subject: [ILUG-BOM] multi-boot error w/ 2 hdd's
> I have 2 hdd's hda and hdb. I have RH 9 on hda2 w/ grub as
> bootloader. I then installed slackware 9 on hdb2 (which
> previously had RH 8.) hdb3 also has RH 8. Slackware is on reiserfs.
>
> I have installed lilo of slackware on boot sector of / (hdb2) as
> I did not make a seperate boot partition.
>
> I have copied the vmlinuz of slack to /boot of RH 9 and have
> made the entries in grub.conf as below:
>
> ----------------------------
>
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Linux 9 (2.4.20-8)
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/12 hdd=ide-scsi
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
> title Slackware 9 (2.4.20)
> root (hd1,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20 ro hdd=ide-scsi
^^^^^^
Why don't you try adding "root=/dev/hdb2" (or whatever is the root
partition for your slackware install) in the above line and see if it
boots correctly?
HTH,
Rajen
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