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Old 07-05-2006, 04:06 PM   #1
Frank Soranno
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Booting?


I have 2 hard drives, hda (master) hdb (slave) on the first drive I'm running Fedora 5,and using grub to boot both drives, on the hdb I installed Slackware 10.2. The last distro I used was mepis and it booted from my grub on the Fedora. However now I can't boot Slackware, I like to know the proper configuration in my default /boot/grub/grub.conf file, I have my existing file as such;
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2139_FC5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5.img


title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img



# Boot Ubuntu
#title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-25-386
#root (hd1,0)
#kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-25-386 ro root=/dev/hdb1
#initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-25-386
#savedefault
#boot

#title Debian, GNU/Linux
#root (hd1,0)
#kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 ro root=/dev/hdb1
#initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
#savedefault
#boot

#title Mepis, 2.6.15-1-586tsc
#root (hd1,0)
#kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-586tsc ro root=/dev/hdb1
#initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-586tsc
#savedefault
#boot

title Slackware, 2.4.31-noarch-1
root (hdb1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.31-noarch-1 ro root=/dev/hdb1
initrd /boot/diag1.img-2.4.31-noarch-1
savedefault
boot

Not sure if Slackware is right?

fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
 
Old 07-05-2006, 04:13 PM   #2
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with the stock 2.4.31 kernel the initrd line is not necessary, and add scsi emulation for an IDE CDrom drive append="hdc=ide-scsi"

Last edited by Okie; 07-05-2006 at 05:11 PM.
 
Old 07-05-2006, 05:44 PM   #3
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And check what your Slackware kernel is actually named in /boot, changing it in the conf file for grub.
 
Old 07-06-2006, 07:27 AM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Okie
with the stock 2.4.31 kernel the initrd line is not necessary, and add scsi emulation for an IDE CDrom drive append="hdc=ide-scsi"
Not sure about how to add IDE line? Could you post it?
Thanks
 
Old 07-06-2006, 07:29 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by cwwilson721
And check what your Slackware kernel is actually named in /boot, changing it in the conf file for grub.
It says it's "2.4.31-noarch-1" don't know any different?
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