Re: [sheflug] Multi distros?

[J Simpson V21 <hubblesimpson [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Peter Collier wrote:
   

On Sunday 26 March 2006 23:58, J Simpson V21 wrote:

> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > Thanks for your comments.  I have installed Suse 10.0 evaluation and it
> > was quite painless. 
>   
snip

> >
> > The only thing that appears not to have worked is configuring the
> > bootloader.  I have windows and Suse on the boot screen, I used YAST to
> > modify the bootloader.  The boot screen now lists windows, fedora and
> > Suse, however I can boot into windows and Suse still, but it doesn't
> > work with Fedora, I get the error message
> > "Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format"  :-( 
> >
> > I have checked file /boot/grub/menu/lst and it appears correct (I
> > think)  as far as I am aware Fedora is at hda3.
> > In the file it says:
> > chainloader (hd0,2)+1  which looks right to me from the reading I have
> > done. It is not the end of the world as I should have everything backed
> > up (fingers crossed).
> >
> > I also want to ask a question about the file system on Suse as it seems
> > a bit strange, but I will get back to that another time.  :-) 
> >
> > Regards
> > Janet
>   

Janet,
	 AFAIK you don't use chainloader to boot up a linux partition. I suggest 
using a text editor and copy the entry for booting up fedora from the 
fedora's menu.lst. Erase the the entry you have for booting fedora in the 
suse menu.lst and replace that entry from the one you copied from the fedora 
menu.lst.
	The suse file system does place various files in different places compared to 
redhat/fedora. Suse eg has more files in the /opt directory compared to other 
distros. They've been doing this for many years now, some complaints then 
that suse wasn't following the standard filesystem layout but it all seems to 
work.

Peter C


Hi Peter,
Thanks for your reply.  Since installing Suse I am unable to access the 
Fedora.  When the machine boots up it gives me two options windows and 
Suse.  I presume I can't copy the Fedora's menu.lst until I can access 
it.  Is there another way to do this?

I'm a bit lost here and fear I have used the wrong language (caused 
confusion).
I understand that there are two programmes that boot up operating 
systems lilo and grub. With linux I have only used grub.

With Fedora I only had to go in to change the default from windows to 
Fedora.  I assumed that the boot/grub/menu.lst was the information used 
by grub to boot the operating systems?  I don' t know really know what a 
chainloader is?  It is just listed in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst.  I 
did use Yast to add fedora, but it did not work.   I can provide the 
information for my /boot/groub/menu.lst if that would help?

Regards
Janet
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A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion

Q. Why is top posting bad?

/Proud to be using Linux April 2005/

/Fedora Core 2 04/05/

/Suse 10.0 03/06/


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