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Old 08-05-2003, 06:41 PM   #1
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RedHat Grub Mandrake Boot Problem


RedHat Grub Mandrake Boot Problem

RedHat Mandrake Grub Boot Problem:

Soyo K7V Dragon Plus Motherboard (able to boot from any drive)

I keep all Operating System boot loaders on the actual disk.
Have Mandrake 9.1 & RedHat 9.0 installed on HDD2 (secondary slave).
BIOS is set to boot from built in Promise Controller (SCSI). Mandrake sees this during install > RedHat does not > thus Mandrake sees the drive as /dev/hdh & Redhat as /dev/hdd.

Mandrake intalled first with (/,swap,/usr,/var,/home/tmp) then Redhat with same division of partitions. Root for Mandrake is hdh1 & for Redhat hdd10.

I am trying to get the RedHat Grub bootloader (installed on the drive MBR) to load Mandrake as I like the RedHat Grub boot GUI better than the Mandrake grub GUI. I have not been able to get it to work. Below are the respective menu.1st files:

Mandrake 9.1:
timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
i18n (hd0,0)/boot/grub/messages
keytable (hd0,0)/boot/us.klt
altconfigfile (hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.once
default 0

title Mandrake9.1
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdh1 quiet devfs=mount hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdh1 devfs=mount hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdh1 failsafe devfs=nomount hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1

title 2421-25
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.25mdk quiet devfs=mount hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791 root=/dev/hdh1
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.25mdk.img

Always using last entry (updated kernel).

RedHat 9.0:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,9)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdd10
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hdd
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,9)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.9)
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9 ro root=LABEL=/1 hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.9.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/1 hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img

What do I need to do to get the RedHat Grub Bootloader to boot Mandrake? Some Append Info? If so what?
Stumped!!
 
Old 08-10-2003, 10:01 AM   #2
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You can add the entries from the Mandrake GRUB to the RedHat GRUB configuration file.
However, you will need to change Mandrake's HD (hd0,0) to what ever RedHat says it is.
At the command line in RedHat, type:
Code:
fdisk -l
This will display the partition setup of your HDDs.
 
  


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