On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:35:16 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 21:41 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>> But I was wrong yet again about how to set up the dual boot -- it's
>> trying to use rootnoverify in /etc/grub.conf, which doesn't work; and
>> I shudder at trying once more to gnaw my way through the available
>> grub instructions to dope out precisely enough how to make the FC
>> entry look enough like the CentOS entries.
>
> For information's sake, this is one my FC6 GRUB stanzas:
>
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2257.fc5)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.img
>
> The (hd0,0) has to be set for where your /boot partition is, the root=
> bit for where your system / is, which may be an ordinary partition or a
> volume group, and hte version numbers have to suit what you've
> installed.
[...]
All right; since CentOS does connect, I can ssh to it; doing that, I get
the following on the p2 machine :
[root@localhost ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
18803436 3530836 14317416 20% /
/dev/hda1 101086 12455 83412 13% /boot
none 192944 0 192944 0% /dev/shm
[root@localhost ~]#
If I'm not totally fouled up (yet), that tells me I do have a boot
partition on hda, and it's at hda1. Right so far?
Then I can edit /etc/grub.conf on the p2, go to the bottom of the file,
delete the rootnoverify and chainload lines, copy & paste your stanza
above onto it (with fc5 replaced by fc6) -- or maybe an fc6 stanza from
/etc/grub.conf on one of my own other machines, which would also get an
fc6 kernel version -- and then what?? Do I just leave what shows as
hd(0,0) still hd(0,0)??
Fwiw, here're a couple fedora stanzas from /etc/grub.conf on the machine
I'm using at the moment :
title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /xen.gz-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
module /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol
00
module /initrd-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2869.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.img
Will it work if I just put that (without the xen stanza) verbatim onto the
bottom of the /etc/grub.conf that's in the p2 now? Will it find hdb by
itself?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
