Hi All,
I have a Dell Precision 6600 that I original setup to dual boot RH5.5 and RH6.1( to support two different products for my company). I am trying to replace the RH5.5 with Ubuntu. I downloaded Ubuntu for the Ubuntu.com and burned as ISO disk on my windows machine. During the Ubuntu install process, I selected to install it on /dev/sda3 and made it a mount pt to /(The same way the RH5.5 was originally setup). For the boot loader, I selected /dev/sda1 where /boot for both the RH installs were mapped.
I can still boot the RH6.1 and all my applications on that side still run. I can see the /ubuntu but I can't get the system to boot Ubuntu or even run Ubuntu. I can run Ubuntu from the RH side by using the UBUNTU DVD.
Thanks for your help in advance - Tammy
Here's a snapshot of the partitions:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4eb4b6d3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 12773 102398310 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 12774 25521 102398310 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 25522 60801 283386600 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 25522 27561 16386268+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 27562 60801 267000268+ 83 Linux
Mount table from the RH6.1 side
[root@lx-ae01 ~]# mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /ubuntu type ext3 (rw)
/var/www/html/pub/mercury/rhel/install/rhel-server-6.1-x86_64-dvd.iso on /var/www/html/pub/mercury/rhel/install/RHEL_6.1_x86_64 type iso9660 (ro,loop=/dev/loop0)
/var/www/html/pub/mercury/rhel/install/rhel-6-mrg-2.0-x86_64.iso on /var/www/html/pub/mercury/rhel/install/MRG_2.0_x86_64 type iso9660 (ro,loop=/dev/loop1)
none on /mcmemfs type mcmemfs (rw)
none on /mc/cluster type tmpfs (rw,size=2m,mode=777)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev)
Here is the grub.conf I am trying to use:
You can see where I commented out the two boot options for RH5.5.
From the comments, you can see I tried setting the kernel and the initrd like in RH but that scenario just hangs at boot-up when that option is selected. I then tried the menu.lst which gives the error "File not Found". One thing among many that I do not understand is when I check the properties on the vmlinuz-3.5.0-23-generic it declares the type as a DOS/Windows executable(application/ x-ms-dos-executable) which is different from the other vmlinuz(s) on the machine.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1/MRG 2.0 (2.6.33.9-rt31.66.el6rt.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.9-rt31.66.el6rt.x86_64 ro root=UUID=98d8446b-6aa5-417f-85c0-a7b384780001 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=256M rhgb memmap=4096M$4096M slot=1 nomodeset rdblacklist=nouveau reboot=pci
initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.9-rt31.66.el6rt.x86_64.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=98d8446b-6aa5-417f-85c0-a7b384780001 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=256M rhgb memmap=4096M$4096M slot=1 nomodeset rdblacklist=nouveau reboot=pci
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64.img
title Ubuntu Linux 12.04
root (hd0,0)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
# kernel /vmlinuz-3.5.0-23-generic ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb crashkernel=256M memmap=4096M$4096M slot=1 reboot=pci
# initrd / initrd.img-3.5.0-23-generic
#title Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5/MRG 1.3 (realtime) (2.6.33.7-rt29.45.el5rt)
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.7-rt29.45.el5rt ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb crashkernel=256M@16M memmap=4096M$4096M slot=1
# initrd /initrd-2.6.33.7-rt29.45.el5rt.img
#title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.5 (2.6.18-194.el5)
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet crashkernel=256M@16M
# initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.el5.img
Here is the fstab for the RH6.1 system:
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Mon Mar 12 22:53:18 2012
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=98d8446b-6aa5-417f-85c0-a7b384780001 / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=48204b98-f593-4b7c-ae35-6413b4b6a89e /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
UUID=39924bd3-81fa-4eaa-96c6-f57ca5d901cb /home ext3 defaults 1 2
UUID=4bba46da-bbef-4bfd-b5f3-a61314b2b401 /ubuntu ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/var/www/html/pub/mercury/rhel/install/rhel-server-6.1-x86_64-dvd.iso /var/www/html/pub/mercury/rhel/install/RHEL_6.1_x86_64 iso9660 loop,ro 0 0
/var/www/html/pub/mercury/rhel/install/rhel-6-mrg-2.0-x86_64.iso /var/www/html/pub/mercury/rhel/install/MRG_2.0_x86_64 iso9660 loop,ro 0 0
none /mcmemfs mcmemfs defaults 0 0
none /mc/cluster tmpfs size=2m,mode=777 0 0
and the fstab for the Ubuntu system:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
#proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
#UUID=4bba46da-bbef-4bfd-b5f3-a61314b2b401 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
#UUID=98d8446b-6aa5-417f-85c0-a7b384780001 / ext4 defaults 1 1 Red Hat Partition
UUID=48204b98-f593-4b7c-ae35-6413b4b6a89e /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
UUID=39924bd3-81fa-4eaa-96c6-f57ca5d901cb /home ext3 defaults 1 2
UUID=4bba46da-bbef-4bfd-b5f3-a61314b2b401 / ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
#tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
#sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
