On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:26:32 -0400 Sohail Mamdani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > My primary OS is Fedora Core 2, which I installed on my laptop using > the following partitioning scheme. > /dev/hda1 : /boot > /dev/hda2: / (root partition) > /dev/hda3: swap. > > I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on some free space that I had (about 10 > gb, I think) and during the installation, I told the installer to > "User Free Space", which it appears to have done, creating a new > partition called /dev/hda5. I am able to mount this using the mount > command within Fedora and see the various files installed. > > However, I have no idea how to configure Grub so that I can actually > boot from this partition. During the install process, I told the > installer not to install any bootloader, hoping that I could figure > out how to add that Mandrake install to grub's config file. > > Does anyone have any idea how I can boot from that Mandrake partition? > I've included the output from my mount command below: This is actually pretty easy, though it would have been a little easier if you had let Mandrake install a boot loader. Boot up FC2, then as root, go to /boot/grub. You need to edit a file called menu.lst to add an entry for Mandrake. On my AMD64 laptop, I have grub installed on a 32-bit version of Mandrake, then in the menu.lst for that, I have an entry for Mandrake AMD64. Here is how my entry looks for the latter: title linux10 kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-9mdk root=/dev/hda8 noapic devfs=mount acpi=off resume=/dev/hda10 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd-2.6.3-9mdk.img What you need to find, in your *Mandrake* boot directory, are the names of your vmlinuz and initrd files. You also need to figure out the proper partition, remembering that they numbered from zero. For example, notice in my entry that /dev/hda8 is partition hd0,7. Hope this helps. Next time, let it install a boot loader, but tell it to load it in the boot partition, *NOT* the MBR. Then you can simply copy and paste the appropriate entry from the grub/menu.lst file for Mandrake directly into the grub/menu.lst file for FC2. > > /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > none on /sys type sysfs (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) > /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) > none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > /dev/hda5 on /mnt/mandrake type ext3 (rw) > sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) > > > > Thanks, > Sohail Mamdani > > -- Guy Rouillier
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