Hi,
Still working my new installation of Linux, etc. I have several OS images installed on a new SATA disk, plus an original Win98 install I'm moving off of which is on an existing SATA drive. The original Win98 disk is now on the secondary SATA port (swapped disks), and I am booting from Grub that was installed as part of a Fedora Core 5 installation on the new disk (now primary). The FC5 install shares a disk with a new (totally unused) Win98 install and a Solaris 10 U1 installation.
In the short term, I would like to be able to boot into the original Win98 from a Grub menu choice. I tried what I thought would be the solution (see last section of grub.conf provided below), but this does not work - the menu entry is there when I boot to grub but it just comes back to the same menu if I try to select it. I've included df and mount command outputs from within FC5 to provide further information.
I would appreciate the information I need to revise my grub.conf file to enable booting into the original Win98 install.
Code:
[donv@localhost ~]$ df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde3 9917 4994 4411 54% /
tmpfs 252 0 252 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hde5 9917 758 8647 9% /home
/dev/hdf1 19993 15268 4726 77% /mnt/oldwin98
/dev/hdf5 74990 42605 32385 57% /mnt/oldwin98_d
/dev/hde1 10235 243 9992 3% /mnt/new98
Code:
[donv@localhost ~]$ mount
/dev/hde3 on / type ext3 (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/hde5 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdf1 on /mnt/oldwin98 type vfat (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
automount(pid2377) on /net type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2377,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/hdf5 on /mnt/oldwin98_d type vfat (rw)
/dev/hde1 on /mnt/new98 type vfat (rw)
Code:
[root@localhost donv]# more /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hde3
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hde
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
password --md5 <<password hash deleted from posting>>
title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2080_FC5)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
title Solaris 10 U1
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title OldWin98
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
[root@localhost donv]#
