how do i dual boot 2 distros?
hello all
I was able to install 2 distros in my hard disk - I installed Suse first on hda3, then Fedora on hda1. I dont have a /boot partition. the problem is grub only sees Fedora. How do I setup grub so i can have a choice to boot Suse? |
You'll have to edit it by hand here's mine to give you an idea
default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/colors.xpm.gz title=Slackare 10.0 root (hd0,2) kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26SM root=/dev/hda3 ro hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi vga=791 splash=silent initrd=/boot/initrd-1024x768 title=Gentoo root (hd0,4) kernel=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=791 title=Windowsxp rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 |
thanks for your reply
how do you know what numbers to put on your root (*,*) like in your gentoo, how did you what does the "4" stand for in root (0,4). |
thats the way grub does it
root (hd0,4) means /dev/hda5 so it one number less then the partition where you have your distro installed. read the grub docs in /usr/docs/grub or /usr/share/docs/grub hd0 is /dev/hda so if your distro is installed on hda on the first partition it would be root (hd0,0) grub just starts counting at zero instead of 1 |
ok thanks for the info
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