Add Mandriva to Grub

joint · 01-02-2007, 03:19 PM

Got Mandriva 2007 in a second HD, how do I add it to Suse 10.2 Grub menu?
Thanx

PS-Happy 2007

reddazz · 01-02-2007, 03:24 PM

Edit Suses /boot/grub/menu.lst and add an entry similar to below

Code:

title Mandriva
    root (hd1,X)
    kernel (hd1,X)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdXX splash=silent vga=788
    initrd (hd1,X)/boot/initrd.img

Make sure you replace the Xs with the right devices on which you installed Mandriva.

joint · 01-03-2007, 05:37 AM

It didn't work, and the problem seems to be Mandriva 2007 because i reinstalled mandriva's grub and it added Suse (suse loaded up but had no graphic mode) and vice versa (Mandriva crashed loading up).
Even when i made a Mandriva 2007 clean install on a primary slave hd, Suse (on a secondary partition on primary hd where XP is installed) didn't load up!

I tried install Ubuntu instead of mandriva (just for testing) and everything went ok.

So I think there's some kind of issue of Mandriva beeing installed on a secondary HD.

Cheers

reddazz · 01-03-2007, 09:05 AM

Its possible to have the the graphical boot show up. What you had to do was copy Suses entry from its /boot/grub/menu.lst and paste it in the /boot/grub/menu.lst of Mandriva. The same applies if you were doing it the other way round. As for the other issue with Mandriva, it could simply be a hardware or configuration issue.

joint · 01-03-2007, 03:20 PM

Thank you Reddazz, didn't remember that... worked fine
cheers