Grub and Twin distros

deadlock · 04-29-2004, 09:05 AM

Slightly different problem to the usual GRUB dual boots on the forum.

I have 2 HDs in a test machine here, the secondary partition currently has Fedora Core 1 installed on it with some toys I am playing with. This HD happily boots if the BIOS is set to boot from D.

On the primary partition I have just installed Fedora Core 2 test 3. This also happily boots up, but only if I select C as primary in the BIOS.

I have tried editing grub.conf to list Core 1 (hd1,0), but obviously something is wrong with that (I'm guessing the fact that I need more root structure than is in the default settings)

Grub.conf as follows

Code:

title FC2
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6....
    initrd /inird-2.6....
title FC1
    root(hd1,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.....
    initrd /initrd2.4....

Dan

jailbait · 04-29-2004, 06:44 PM

"I have tried editing grub.conf to list Core 1 (hd1,0), but obviously something is wrong with that (I'm guessing the fact that I need more root structure than is in the default settings)"

You seem to have the MBR of /dev/hda pointing to grub.conf on /dev/hda and the MBR on the second hard drive (wherever it may be, D does not tell me where the hard drive is located) pointing to grub.conf on the second hard drive.

You can straighten out your MBR by picking one of the grub.conf files and setting it up the way that you want. Set the BIOS to boot /dev/hda. In grub.conf set boot=/dev/hda and then run grub-install. This will point the MBR on /dev/hda to the correctly set up grub.conf which will allow you to dual boot by selecting an entry from the grub boot time menu.

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blinux1 · 04-29-2004, 09:05 PM

i'm not sure if this is related, but you might have to make a distinction on the kernel lines of the grub.conf file (it doesn't hurt and it could help). Like this:
title FC2
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0, 0)/vmlinuz-2.6....
initrd (hd0, 0)/inird-2.6....
title FC1
root(hd1,0)
kernel (hd1, 0)/vmlinuz-2.4.....
initrd (hd1, 0)/initrd2.4....
I was dual booting redhat and mandrake and for the mandrake title I only put
kernel /vmlinuz-- when i rebooted, it booted the "redhat vmlinuz" by default. Making the distinction between what hard drive / partition to load the kernel/init from can help