On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 09:42, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote:
> > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500
> > >
> > > Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote:
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > > As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't
> > > > > hold me to it.
> > > >
> > > > What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake?
> > > > MBR?
> > >
> > > The MBR = yes
> >
> > NO, NO, NO
> >
> > You want to install mandrake bootloader in partition, not on MBR. You will
> > not be able to boot SuSE if you do this. You want to chainload Mandrake
> > bootloader just like windows.
> >
> > Install Mandrake's bootloader in the root partition and then boot to linux
> > and add a stanza to Grub's menu.lst kind of like the windows one
> >
> > title WindowsXP
> > root (hd0,0)
> > chainloader +1
> >
> > title Mandrake
> > root (hd0,7) <== Put the drive partition number that you installed
> > chainloader +1 Mandrake on here. Remember that 1st partition
> > is zero.
>
> As a follow up, you can make Grub boot Mandrake directly off of the MBR, but
> you have to let one of the Linux distros be the Grub master so to speak.
> Once you get all three booting using the chainloader, you can try booting to
> Suse and then adding a stanza to boot mandrake right off of its own
> partition. This is the way I do it, my Grub menu.lst
This may be beyond the realm of my current understanding. Here's my
current /boot/grub/menu.lst in SUSE:
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Linux
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x314 splash=silent
desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
windows###
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
floppy###
title Floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
failsafe###
title Failsafe
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 showopts ide=nodma
apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
memtest86###
title Memory Test
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/memtest.bin
And my filesystem setup (although swap doesn't appear to be
displayed??):
linux:~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 65G 7.9G 57G 13% /
/dev/hda1 5.9G 2.5G 3.4G 43% /windows/C
tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
So I guess I still don't understand:
1) Will Mandrake offer the ability to resize my ReiserFS SUSE
partition?
2) Will Mandrake share utilize the existing SWAP partition already
setup for SUSE?
3) What should I choose at the bootloader step to get Mandrake to
appear as an option in my current bootloader menu?
Thanks again for your patience and replies!
--
Cheers,
Trey
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