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My current working grub.conf is:
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Besides the Fedora Core 2 and windows installations on the hard disk, I had installed linux on the hard disk previously but I forgot what are the distributions.
How do I find out what linux distributions are installed on the hard disk?
How to modify grub.conf so that I can boot into those linux distributions?
# fdisk /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3213 25808391 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 4519 9726 41833260 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 3214 3342 1036192+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 3343 4518 9446220 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 4519 4534 128488+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 4535 9726 41704708+ 83 Linux
Try mounting (su, cd /mnt, mkdir hdaX, mount /dev/hdaX ./hdaX) those other partitions marked as 'Linux' (hda4, hda5, hda6), and seeing what's on them to find what else is installed. Adding them to your GRUB menu is more complex, and I would give some advice, but I haven't done it much myself.
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