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Re: [sheflug] Multi Distros
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 21:48, J Simpson V21 wrote:
> Lesley wrote:
> 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?>
>
> Hi Lesley,
> Here goes:-
> /boot/grub/menu.lst.old and /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
>
> /boot/grub/menu.lst.old
>
>
> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Mar 23 23:47:36 UTC 2006
>
>
>
> color white/blue black/light-gray
>
>
> default 0
>
>
> timeout 8
>
>
> gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
>
>
>
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
>
>
> title SUSE LINUX 10.0
>
>
> root (hd0,5)
>
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda5
> splash=silent showopts
>
>
> initrd /boot/initrd
>
>
>
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
>
>
> title Windows
>
>
> chainloader (hd0,0)+1
>
>
>
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
>
>
> title Floppy
>
>
> chainloader (fd0)+1
>
>
>
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
>
>
> title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
>
>
> root (hd0,5)
>
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma
> apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
>
>
> initrd /boot/initrd
>
>
>
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
>
> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Mar 25 23:52:08 GMT 2006
>
>
>
> color white/blue black/light-gray
>
>
> default 0
>
>
> timeout 8
>
>
> gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
>
>
>
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
>
>
> title SUSE LINUX 10.0
>
>
> root (hd0,5)
>
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda5
> splash=silent showopts
>
>
> initrd /boot/initrd
>
>
>
> title Fedora Core2
>
>
> chainloader (hd0,2)+1
>
>
>
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
>
>
> title Windows
>
>
> chainloader (hd0,0)+1
>
>
>
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
>
>
> title Floppy
>
>
> chainloader (fd0)+1
>
>
>
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
>
>
> title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
>
>
> root (hd0,5)
>
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma
> apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
>
>
> initrd /boot/initrd
>
>
>
> df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6 9.9G 5.1G 4.9G 51% /
> tmpfs 221M 12K 221M 1% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdd1 9.5G 3.1G 6.5G 33% /windows/D
>
> I wasn't expecting that?
>
> etc/fstab
> /dev/hda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr
> 1 1 /dev/hdd1 /windows/D vfat
> users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap
> swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc
> proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys
> sysfs noauto 0 0 usbfs
> /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts
> /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/hda2
> /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda3
> /data2 auto noauto,user 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs
> noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
> /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs
> noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0
> /media/floppy subfs
> noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 none
> /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0
>
> Now I was expecting the df -h to list the partitions like the etc/fstab
> file? I've just noticed that hda1 isn't there.
>
> When I had Fedora
> hda1 fat32 10,001 Windows
> hda2 ext3 99 /boot
> hda3 ext3 18,000 /
> hda4 extended 11,105
> hda5 linux swap 1024
> free space 10,081
> hdd1 fat32 9731
>
Have you looked here ??
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11802.html
6.1. Bootloader Location
The most important thing to remember while preparing to install a new Linux OS
is to install the bootloader into the boot sector of the root partition, not
the MBR. The default is probably the MBR, so you'll have to change this
setting.
--
Regards
Ted Wager
Using PCLinuxos
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