On 11/7/06, Christoph Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/6/06, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christoph Maier wrote:
> > It seems that only device.map and menu.lst are readable.
> > No trace of /boot/grub/grub.conf
> > My more or less educated guess would be that I need to be looking
> > into /boot/grub/menu.lst .
> >
>
> Yeah menu.lst seems to be the ubuntu way. The name of the conf file
> seems to live in the "stage2" program. Don't know the history --
> presumeably there was some difference of opinions, somewhere.
>
> PS, when you get around to experimenting with installing additional
> distributions, remember that the kernel and grub files have to be on a
> "plain" partition (not LVM). The filesystem root can be LVM-- just not
> /boot (the initrd magic makes lvm available _after_ loading the kernel).
>
> Be aware that there will be some fussy grub reconfiguration needed after
> installing each addtional OS. I've found at least 2 ways of getting
> comfortable with the process, but it's messy to describe as well as
> execute -- so maybe that those recipes should be posted separately,
> maybe to the wiki?. I'm sure cdl and others have their own ways of doing
> it, as well.
>
> Regards,
> ..jim
I just bit the bullet and re-installed Fedora Core 6, with the
bootloader installed to one of Fedora's partitions (/root?). I got a
grub.conf, identified the stanza for Fedora, and pasted it into
ubuntu's /boot/grub/menu.lst .
It works
[modulo hostname, which I would like to set without having to
reinstall yet again ... it's probably not entirely trivial to hunt
down all the configuration files I need to update].
I don't feel that my antics are quite organized well enough for a
wiki, but now that you have given me access to
http://www.kernel-panic.org , I'm keeping track of my experiments in a
"Hamburger LUGnut" blog.
It should be relatively easy to distill the information into wikis, if
warranted.
And now for trying to get the hostname problem solved ...
For Fedora Core, that I know of, hostname is established in one place,
the file /etc/sysconfig/network. It also might appear in /etc/hosts.
Edit and reboot.
Some other Unix-like OS's have a file /etc/hostname.
For a slide presentation that discusses multiple boot systems, see
< http://www.desktoplinuxsummit.org/images/DLS2006_Presos/Peter_VanderLinden.odp
It can be read with OpenOffice 2.0. Download, and then
$ ooffice Peter_VanderLinden.odp
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