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In the past Ive always used lilo on the mbr to boot multiple distro's.
I did it the cheesey way, by putting grub on the root partition of the second linux distro and pointing lilo to that partition.
Now I'd like to use grub for both linux's.
Kubuntu's grub is the one I'm using, and I assume its on the MBR
My set up is:
HDA1 Kubuntu root
HDA2 Extended
HDA3 Fedora Boot
Hda4 Fedora
HDA5 Kubuntu swap
HDA6 Kubuntu home
I installed fedora 6 but I'm looking at the fedora 5 bible and it has a grub entry like this:
Thanks for the reply
I think I've found the kernel no. from a screen shot on a how to install fedora 6 web site, since I cant boot fedora I dont know how to get into any files.
The kernel they showed was 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 if anyone knows different please let me know.
I had another question though, I dont seem to have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file on kubuntu, I dont know if this file is only generated when you have more than one operating system to boot at the time of install or if I have to edit some other file that's taken grub.conf's place.
Distribution: Ubuntu, Debian, Various using VMWare
Posts: 2,088
Rep:
On Kubuntu, the grub file is /boot/grub/menu.lst.
I suggest that you mount your fedora boot partition (eg: mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /media) and then ls the contents. Add the relevant files to the Grub config on Kubuntu.
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
boot
title Ubuntu, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
boot
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
I've changed /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd to /media/vmlinuz and /media/initrd to just /vmlinuz and /initrd.
and I changed the last half of the kernel line from ro root=LABEL=/ to ro root=/dev/hda3
and I'm still getting Error 15 file not found, so I dont know if I didnt do something right when I installed fedora or if the options on the kernel or initrd line have changed.
Any Ideas
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