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Linux Dual-Booting Troubles (Fedora + Dream Linux)

Hello all,

I've been trying to get a dual boot setup between two Linux distros for the past few days, to no avail. I have one sata drive which I am partitioning multiple times. Right now, it looks like:
1st parition: 15 gigs ext3, Fedora Core
2nd parition: 5 gigs swap (for Fedora Core)
3rd partition: 15 gigs ext3 Dream Linux
4th parition 5 gigs swap (for Dream Linux)

The first OS installed is Fedora Core 6. After that, I tried installing Dream Linux 2.2 several different ways (letting it write GRUB to the MBR, letting it write GRUB to the /root partition, not letting it write GRUB at all) and I can't figure out how to get them both working. From Fedora, my grub.conf file looks like this:

Code:

default=0

timeout=5

splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

hiddenmenu

title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2944.fc6)

    root (hd0,0)

    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet

    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.img

title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)

    root (hd0,0)

    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet

    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img

title Dream Linux (2.6.18.1-kanotix-1)

    root (hd0,2)

    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18.1-kanotix-1 root/dev/sda3 vga=0x317 vga=791 splash=sile$initrd = /initrd

When I attempt to choose Dream Linux from the Grub menu I get the following error:

Code:

root (hd0,2)

 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18.1-kanotix-1 root/dev/sda3 vga=0x317 vga=791 splash=sile$initrd = /initrd



Error 15: File not found

I've looked at these forums and various other places but I just can't figure out what's going on. Any of you have more experience with this?

Look at your Dream Linux code:

Code:

title Dream Linux (2.6.18.1-kanotix-1)

    root (hd0,2)

    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18.1-kanotix-1 root/dev/sda3 vga=0x317 vga=791 splash=sile$initrd = /initrd

According to your post, root(hd0,2) is correct. The "file not found" error is relating to the next line...You've not broken Dream Linux up into various partitions (i.e. /, /boot, /usr, /home, etc...), so you need to include /boot in your kernel path so GRUB can find the kernel (you're currently looking in the root directory).

Also, you need root=/dev/sda3 and initrd needs to be on its own line...(and I took out the splash parameter...add it back in once you verify that you can boot both systems)

Here's the result:

Code:

title Dream Linux (2.6.18.1-kanotix-1)

    root (hd0,2)

    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.1-kanotix-1 root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x317 vga=791 

    initrd /boot/initrd

This assumes your kernel and initrd are indeed within the /boot subdirectory of your Dream Linux partition...(and are named exactly what's listed there)

Success! Thank you very much for your help! :D

Glad I could help...