All,

Here is the output of df –T:

Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 reiserfs 35108940 5922248 29186692 17% /
tmpfs tmpfs 777840 28 777812 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 ntfs 39078080 67888 39010192 1% /windows/C
/dev/sda2 ntfs 117089752 45410460 71679292 39% /windows/D
/dev/sda3 vfat 48082 648 47434 2% /windows/E

I currently have three HD's.

A SATA 120GB with Windows XP (sda2)
A SATA 36GB with SuSE Linux (sdb2)
An IDE 37 GB with nothing on it (hda1)

At the moment, I can successfully boot into either Linux or Windows. I get the choice each time GRUB comes up.

I'd like to install Fedora Core 2 on the empty third HD (hda1) and retain the other OS’s

I booted from the Fedora CD, and started the process. When it came time to configure the bootloader, I didn't know where to point it. Here is what it automatically suggested:

Fedora Core: /dev/hda2
Other: /dev/sda3

So, at that point I didn’t know which OS “other” pertained to or how to add FC2 so that all three are up and running.

Any configuration suggestions will be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Herk

forgive me if i oversimplify... but:

/dev/hda1 will ALWAISE be accupied by somones boot images as regardles of where the os is installed the bios alwaise looks at the first sector of the first ide drive to tell it what to do.

check the size of the dev/hda partision... if its more then 100 meg then theres somthing ood happening.

it may be wise to try and configure grup manually...
or back it up from one of the other OS's so you can restore it if FC2 makes a mess of it.

do a google for grub.conf to see how it dose things... its pritty simple thought you need to understandit has a different way of mapping the drives

If /dev/hda1 is where the boot image goes, that's fine.

What I need to know is what to put in so that Fedora Core 2 is installed on the empty HD and GRUB knows that I have 3 OS's now instead of two.

When I start installing, as I mentioned above, FC2 tells me that Fedora Core will be on /dev/hda2 and "Other" is on /dev/sda3. If I assume sda3 is XP, since it's on the sda drive, then where is my SuSE install? How can I tell FC2 to recognize it?

Thanks again.


Thanks again.

in my experience FC2 was usually very good at working out what os was installed on what pasrtision.. you have an ood problem....
im not sure how to get fc2 to recognise the other os's when booting but heres a work arround:

1: backup as much as you can and make boot disks for win and suse!!!
2: boot into suse and type:
su
yourrootpassword
mount /boot
cd /boot/grub
ls
vi grub.conf
3:copy the contence of this file to somwhere safe ( i recomend a piece of paper )
4copy the contence of /boot to a floppy/cd you NEED to copy anything starting in 'kernel' and 'System.map'
5: install fc2 to hda2 (or whatever free sopace yo uwant to put it on)ignore the problems.
6: boot into your new FC2 system... if grub dosent come up with all three os's examine FC2's grub conf like you did in suse.... ammend the grub.conf using the hardcopy.
7: reboot: all three options should no work, if thy dont, at least you have startup disks, and plese post here and ill go and bang my head off a wall for being wrong.

I don't understand what my grub.conf is doing at the moment. Here is the text:

root (hd1,1)
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000
(hd1,1)/boot/grub/menu.lst
quit


Can someone please interpret my computer's actions based on the lines above, i.e., the system starts, then it looks at hd0 for [which OS], then it looks at....etc.

Thanks,

Herk

My problem: I have others partitions with win2000( in fat32! ;^) )) and others different distros, and lilo is the bootmannager for alls. FedoraC2 have not the possibily to configure lilo in his first sector of her partition, as other distros have!!? (or there are? How to do?). Because this I opted to not configure Grub in MBR, but no possibility to make a floppy disck to posterior boot was made! I configured Fedora2C with CDs, not by FTP.
MY QUESTION: are there some command to do in the prompt (of the "Rescue option" ) to make a FLOPPY (not a CD boot loader!) DISK to load Fedora2C already installed but inaccessible? I tried a sugestion of the forum (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=235595) to make a floppy disk (instead of a CD as the sugestion): "mkfloppydisk --verbose --iso --device boot.iso `uname -r` , but without result. (And, sorry for the newby question, the expressions: "iso", " device" and " 'uname -r`" are the exact expressions to digit or I have to digit, in its place, some other expressions (as --device= the partition where is installed Fedora (hda11, p.ex.), uname -r= result of this command in an prompt (the kernnel especification) ?? This ist the first question I make to Linux Questions!! . Until today, all my doubts had been answered only searching the posts, and I learned a lot with yours rich orientations!! For this one, unhappely, I dont find, yet, a answer. Thanks very much for any help.

herkdrvr,

if i'm not mistaken this
means that grub loads stage 1 from the mbr, then gets the menu.lst. if you want to add entries to grub for other os'es you can edit the menu.lst

Heck

Windows Xp Has a ffit if it is not yhe first system installed. Maybe if you install Fd with boot loader saved to Root instead of MBR. Then you should be able to add to your original boot config and point it to Fd .

Regards Sharkee

This link solved my problem and may be useful to you:
"Especially useful for multiboot, partitioned systems, GRUB offers flexibility and convenience for startup"
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622