[ale] Getting Linux OS to boot

[Trey Sizemore]

Michael Hirsch wrote:

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>>From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
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>Trey
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>>Sizemore
>>Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:16 PM
>>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>>Subject: Re: [ale] Getting Linux OS to boot
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>>Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>Trey Sizemore wrote:
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>>>>Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>>>What does the grub config file look like?  You might try running
>>>>>grub-install.
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>>>>Well, I've not got it where I can boot to Mandrake (rescue mode
>>>>allowed me to install grub on the slave drive's MBR).  So now the
>>>>trick will be to add the other distros to Mandrake's grub.conf
>>>>file...haven't done that in quite a while.  I'm sure with a little
>>>>digging I can remember the format.
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>>>It's pretty straight forward, just keep the number correct.  The
>>>actual references to the filesystems (/dev/hda1) will be the same,
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>>>remember:
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>>>root (hd0,7)  is /dev/hda8
>>>root (hd1,1)  is /dev/hdb2
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>>>Make sure you get the kernel names right as some use variations.
>>>Also, some use different references to the initrd image:
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>>>SuSE:        initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd
>>>Mandrake:    initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
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>>Do I need to add entries in Mandrake's /etc/fstab before they can be
>>booted from entries in lilo.conf?
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>No.  fstab is only used after boot to know what to mount.  And I thought
>we were talking about grub, not lilo??
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Well, in the Mandrake rescue mode, I told it to install the bootloader 
to the MBR for /dev/hdb, but it didn't prompt me for which one.  I can 
find a lilo.conf but no grub.conf even though both are installed.  I 
don't know *which* bootloader it is!