Re: [CentOS] Grub upgrade for CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/01/11 07:23, Ron Blizzard wrote:
 Stupid question (I'm guessing). I'm currently tri-booting (or would
 like to be) VectorLinux 6 Deluxe, CentOS 5.5 and an evaluation copy of
 Red Hat 6. I'm using CentOS's grub. VectorLinux and CentOS boot fine,
 but Red Hat won't load. I think I read somewhere that CentOS's grub is
 too old for ext3, 256 (something or others).

 So, is it possible to download and install a newer version of grub for
 CentOS 5.5? (This has been a problem with other tri-boot attempts). If
 not, is their a way to boot Red Hat from the install DVD? Since it's
 only a 30 day evaluation, booting from DVD or CD would be fine, but I
 don't see the option.

 Thanks for any pointers.


You don't need to upgrade grub, I'm quite happily dual booting rhel6 GA 
on a CentOS-5 system (using C-5 GRUB).

Only thing I did differently is the rhel6 /boot partition is mounted on 
an ext3 partition whereas I _think_ the default might be ext4 which, as 
a wild guess, is probably unsupported by CentOS-5 GRUB ?

The rest of the system is quite happily sitting in an ext4 partition 
using md raid on lvm.

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Re: [CentOS] Grub upgrade for CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-03 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote:

 You don't need to upgrade grub, I'm quite happily dual booting rhel6 GA
 on a CentOS-5 system (using C-5 GRUB).

 Only thing I did differently is the rhel6 /boot partition is mounted on
 an ext3 partition whereas I _think_ the default might be ext4 which, as
 a wild guess, is probably unsupported by CentOS-5 GRUB ?

 The rest of the system is quite happily sitting in an ext4 partition
 using md raid on lvm.

Hi Nick,

Thanks for writing back. I'm using ext3 also. Is it possible to see
your RHEL 6 grub entry? Did you install grub on the RHEL boot
partition and use a chainloader, or were able to just do a normal
entry?

Again,t hanks for any ponters.

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Re: [CentOS] Grub upgrade for CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/01/11 10:37, Ron Blizzard wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Ned Slidern...@unixmail.co.uk  wrote:

 You don't need to upgrade grub, I'm quite happily dual booting rhel6 GA
 on a CentOS-5 system (using C-5 GRUB).

 Only thing I did differently is the rhel6 /boot partition is mounted on
 an ext3 partition whereas I _think_ the default might be ext4 which, as
 a wild guess, is probably unsupported by CentOS-5 GRUB ?

 The rest of the system is quite happily sitting in an ext4 partition
 using md raid on lvm.

 Hi Nick,

 Thanks for writing back. I'm using ext3 also. Is it possible to see
 your RHEL 6 grub entry? Did you install grub on the RHEL boot
 partition and use a chainloader, or were able to just do a normal
 entry?

 Again,t hanks for any ponters.


Yes, I installed rhel6's grub to the rhel6 /boot partition during the 
rhel6 installation and then added a chainloader entry to the end of the 
CentOS-5 /boot/grub/grub.conf to boot rhel6:

title RHEL6 Buildsys
 rootnoverify (hd0)
 root (hd0,1)
 chainloader +1


Adjust to suit your partitioning scheme :-)

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Re: [CentOS] Grub upgrade for CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-03 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote:

 Yes, I installed rhel6's grub to the rhel6 /boot partition during the
 rhel6 installation and then added a chainloader entry to the end of the
 CentOS-5 /boot/grub/grub.conf to boot rhel6:

 title RHEL6 Buildsys
         rootnoverify (hd0)
         root (hd0,1)
         chainloader +1


 Adjust to suit your partitioning scheme :-)

Thanks. I'm guessing that's my problem. Red Hat installed grub to the
MBR, then I overwrote it with the CentOS grub. So there's nothing to
chainload on the partition.

I'll fix it and report back. Again, thanks.

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Re: [CentOS] Grub upgrade for CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-03 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote:

 Yes, I installed rhel6's grub to the rhel6 /boot partition during the
 rhel6 installation and then added a chainloader entry to the end of the
 CentOS-5 /boot/grub/grub.conf to boot rhel6:

 title RHEL6 Buildsys
         rootnoverify (hd0)
         root (hd0,1)
         chainloader +1


 Adjust to suit your partitioning scheme :-)

That's all it needed. Thanks. Writing from Red Hat now. Would have
been here sooner, except SELinux did a relabel -- whatever that is.
Probably didn't like me messing with grub. I thought I could do a
normal Linux grub entry (like CentOS) but I got an grub error number
2 when I tried that (13 with the chainloader, which makes sense since
I didn't have grub there). I'll use the chainloader from now on when I
tri-boot.

Thanks very much.

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Re: [CentOS] Grub upgrade for CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-03 Thread Daniel J Walsh
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On 01/03/2011 06:42 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote:
 
 Yes, I installed rhel6's grub to the rhel6 /boot partition during the
 rhel6 installation and then added a chainloader entry to the end of the
 CentOS-5 /boot/grub/grub.conf to boot rhel6:

 title RHEL6 Buildsys
 rootnoverify (hd0)
 root (hd0,1)
 chainloader +1


 Adjust to suit your partitioning scheme :-)
 
 That's all it needed. Thanks. Writing from Red Hat now. Would have
 been here sooner, except SELinux did a relabel -- whatever that is.
 Probably didn't like me messing with grub. I thought I could do a
 normal Linux grub entry (like CentOS) but I got an grub error number
 2 when I tried that (13 with the chainloader, which makes sense since
 I didn't have grub there). I'll use the chainloader from now on when I
 tri-boot.
 
 Thanks very much.
 
If you boot a machine with SELinux disabled and then renenable it, the
init scripts will relabel the machine.
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[CentOS] Grub upgrade for CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-02 Thread Ron Blizzard
Stupid question (I'm guessing). I'm currently tri-booting (or would
like to be) VectorLinux 6 Deluxe, CentOS 5.5 and an evaluation copy of
Red Hat 6. I'm using CentOS's grub. VectorLinux and CentOS boot fine,
but Red Hat won't load. I think I read somewhere that CentOS's grub is
too old for ext3, 256 (something or others).

So, is it possible to download and install a newer version of grub for
CentOS 5.5? (This has been a problem with other tri-boot attempts). If
not, is their a way to boot Red Hat from the install DVD? Since it's
only a 30 day evaluation, booting from DVD or CD would be fine, but I
don't see the option.

Thanks for any pointers.

-- 
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