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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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