Re: [sheflug] Multi distros?

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

J Simpson V21 wrote:
>  
>   "Marcus D. Hanwell"  wrote:   
>   
> 
>>> On Monday 27 March 2006 14:15, Peter Collier wrote:
>>   
>>>>> 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
>>>     
>>>
>>> You don't /have/ to use a chainloader to boot linux, since grub "knows" a
>>> bit more about linux; but on the other hand, if you have multiple distros
>>> installed, it would make more sense to have them booting as chainloader
>>> otherwise you could have some nasty problems when you upgrade the kernels -
>>> chainloader gets round this problem nicely, and is a much saner way to
>>> handle this type of thing
>>>
>>   
> I would just go with the text editor. The GRUB bootloader is pretty simple and 
> easy to use - see the guide on Gentoo's docs pages for some simple tutorials. 
> What is written there will pretty much work for any kernel - some will need 
> initrd and others will not. You could also use the chainloader if it is too 
> difficult figuring out the correct boot parameters though...
> 
> Hi Marcus and everyone else,
> 
> I have just looked at the /etc/grub.conf,it wasn't what I was expecting (not what I had seen in fedora).  It only had three lines one of which was just the word quit.
> 
> Would it help if I listed where I thought everything is on my machine according to /dev/
> and listed the /boot/grou/menu.lst and the /etc/grub.conf file?
> 
> Sorry, if I am making something really easy very difficult.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Janet
> 
> 
Janet

In short, it would help to see the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst
and also at least one of

(a) the output from the command

df -h

Open a konsole and type that command in, press return and use the mouse 
to copy and paste into your email message.  What I am looking to see 
here is something like your Windows partition on /dev/hda1, data on 
/dev/hda2 and your SuSE partition on /dev/hda5 with the missing Fedora 
probably unlisted but hopefully still sitting on /dev/hda3.   /dev/hda4 
will not appear for historical reasons.

(b) your /etc/fstab file.

Can you remember how you selected partitions when you installed SuSE 
10.0 at all?

Regards

Lesley

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