On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 10:49, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 07:48, Hans Fugal wrote:
> > Maybe the kernel you're trying to boot doesn't have the appropriate
> > filesystem compiled in.
>
> Hmm, it seems to have booted fine from the boot floppy though...too bad
> I ruined that floppy...Well, Mandrake is so quick and easy to install,
> and I hadn't customized anything yet. I think I'll save some time and
> just reinstall it, and give grub another try then. Of course this may
> all have to wait until after Christmas as I seem to be getting busy with
> other things. Thanks again for the help, UUG. I'll keep you posted.
Well, it's after Christmas, so here is the follow up. I put the
Mandrake CD in and rebooted. It did and "update" to Mandrake 9.2 (from
9.2?) and I told it to use grub as the boot loader this time, even
though all I did was have it make a boot floppy. The nice thing is
there was still a menu.lst file in /boot/grub and I was able to swipe
the needed lines from that and put them in the redhat grub.conf. I can
boot redhat or mandrake now (and hopefully whatever else I try in my
"play" partition). The grub.conf is a little different then what we
were trying before. Here's what it looks like (in case anyone really
cares):
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.9smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9smp ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-20.9smp.img
...
title Mandrake linux-smp (2.4.22-10 smp)
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-smp root=/dev/sda5 devfs=mount \
splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-smp.img
Apparently it makes all the difference to have the (hd0,4) right there
after the kernel and initrd statements. Go figure.
Bryan
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