[Novalug] VDQ Grub (cleverness, wages of)
Beartooth
karhunhammas@Lserv.com
Mon Jan 15 10:50:43 EST 2007
"There are many forms of stupidity, and cleverness is not
the best of them." I've been hunting a citation for that for
thirty-odd years in vain; but it remains true.
I tried installing CentOS on my old P2, thinking it the
perfect expendable machine to fool with. Since I was in that
mood, I even tried manual partitioning; and when I discovered it
was letting me choose either or both of the hard drives, I chose
hda and left hdb blank (i.e., dbanned). That worked fine : the
hardware browser saw the other drive, but Centos did not
otherwise.
So then I got out my trusty FC6 CDs, and tried to put it
on hdb -- and I'm pretty sure I did. But grub didn't find it.
So I configured a mailer, and mailed myself the grub.conf
from a machine that dual-boots to FC6 and XP. When I had it on
the P2, I copied the first Fedora entry, and pasted it into the
grub.conf in CentOS. No joy.
What I now have is this :
[root@localhost btth]# cat /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 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/hda9
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.img
title CentOS-4 i386 (2.6.9-42.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2869.fc6)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.img
[root@localhost btth]#
What am I messing up here?? (I've tried hd0,4 and a few
others as FC root.)
Having read the fine manual (at least, as to partition
designation), I *suspect* maybe what has happened is that there
is no boot info for Fedora where it oughtta be -- and that the
easiest remedy would be simply to get out my install CDs for
Fedora and try again. (All I have on that drive so far is an
hour or two's worth of tweaking, setting up panels, one-click
opening, etc.)
If so, what do I watch out for during install? Let FC do
its automatic partitioning, and trust it to preserve CentOS? Or
....??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.
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