I have these Install/Recovery Disks.


SystemRescue 1.6.0 and 2.3.0 SystemRescue will boot one O.S but not the Other.

Fedora 13 and 15

CentOS 6

Knoppix 6.7

Ubuntu 7.10

Mandriva 2008. I'll try 2010 wait just a minute. The root tab completion won't work on Mandriva 2010 but it will work with kernel which is a big plus because most of the boot CDs the root will work which is easy but the kernel one won't which means you have to copy the kernel name with out making a mistake.



These are too inconsistent to be used as a tool so I will make my own and see what happens.It should be a good learning experience! If it goes well I'll start a thread in the Success Story section.

Thanks for the Replies!

I fooled with this on and off for years and spent tens of hours on it. It would help immensely if the Distro Developers would intall rescue capabilities that would not change with the direction of the wind and the Application Developers would write a manual that was not worthless. I always try to spread knowledge in the hopes of bringing everyone up and not keeping others down so here it goes.

Most guides for whatever reason leave out the "initrd" grub command and also "root=dev/drive-and-partition" as in "root=/dev/sda" in bash terms and not grub because it is for the kernel and not grub. root=... is part of the grub kernel command.

http://www.softpanorama.org/Commerci...own/grub.shtml AND http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/gru...er/grub_4.html



Grub may have a shell but the prompt at the grub screen and the process of grub reading the menu.lst are not that related. The grub shell as in the prompt is not a manual version of grubs automated boot process so don't get this confused.


I had a gparted error that made overlapping partitions so it would seem that this allowed grub to go haywire and write on my Windows partition. So all is happy and well in the land of Grub , Linux and Opensourse as far as I
'm concerned. Grub Legacy has so much going for it that it really should be forked like Gnome. Keep the scripting ability, what the hell. The next thread/post I make will have a Mandriva star at the bottom left because I should be able to get it to boot now.


Serendipity to All!

Glad to hear you got everything working!

I still have to get grub to boot automatically but I have a better understanding of it so I'm on my way. The problem with that is most likely just the menu.lst files or related to those anyways. I can rely on grub to not chew up my Windows install if I don't ignore the gparted errors it would seem. I'm not going to install MS first anyways for good measure. I had to download a lot of drivers because of that which did not make me happy while trying to facilitate a bootloader that did not seem to work. There are a lot of guides on grub but none of them are 100%. Multibooting is as much as a Linux mainstay as anything so maybe I will expand on it as a project in the future.It has to be a good outlet for Opensource development. Now I can passively tinker with grub to get my booting the way it should be. See you in the forums.

Well what exactly do you need booted automatically? Just like standard configs, you should just be able to designate in the config the default option and the timeout.