Woo! That worked perfectly. I left out some of the arguments, but it worked perfectly.
Sohail On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:03:44 -0400, Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:26:32 -0400 > Sohail Mamdani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My primary OS is Fedora Core 2, which I installed on my laptop using > > the following partitioning scheme. > > /dev/hda1 : /boot > > /dev/hda2: / (root partition) > > /dev/hda3: swap. > > > > I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on some free space that I had (about 10 > > gb, I think) and during the installation, I told the installer to > > "User Free Space", which it appears to have done, creating a new > > partition called /dev/hda5. I am able to mount this using the mount > > command within Fedora and see the various files installed. > > > > However, I have no idea how to configure Grub so that I can actually > > boot from this partition. During the install process, I told the > > installer not to install any bootloader, hoping that I could figure > > out how to add that Mandrake install to grub's config file. > > > > Does anyone have any idea how I can boot from that Mandrake partition? > > I've included the output from my mount command below: > > This is actually pretty easy, though it would have been a little easier > if you had let Mandrake install a boot loader. Boot up FC2, then as > root, go to /boot/grub. You need to edit a file called menu.lst to add > an entry for Mandrake. On my AMD64 laptop, I have grub installed on a > 32-bit version of Mandrake, then in the menu.lst for that, I have an > entry for Mandrake AMD64. Here is how my entry looks for the latter: > > title linux10 > kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-9mdk root=/dev/hda8 noapic devfs=mount > acpi=off resume=/dev/hda10 splash=silent vga=788 > initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd-2.6.3-9mdk.img > > What you need to find, in your *Mandrake* boot directory, are the names > of your vmlinuz and initrd files. You also need to figure out the > proper partition, remembering that they numbered from zero. For > example, notice in my entry that /dev/hda8 is partition hd0,7. > > Hope this helps. Next time, let it install a boot loader, but tell it > to load it in the boot partition, *NOT* the MBR. Then you can simply > copy and paste the appropriate entry from the grub/menu.lst file for > Mandrake directly into the grub/menu.lst file for FC2. > > > > > > /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) > > none on /proc type proc (rw) > > none on /sys type sysfs (rw) > > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > > usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) > > /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) > > none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > > /dev/hda5 on /mnt/mandrake type ext3 (rw) > > sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Sohail Mamdani > > > > > > > -- > Guy Rouillier > > > >
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