On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 14:12, Melissa Golter wrote:
> but in a 3 hd system i cannot seem to get grub to access one or the other
> of the 2 linux drives, depending on which i install a linux OS on first.
>
> that is, when i install rh9 on hd2, grub will boot hd0 (win2k) and hd2
> (the rh9 volume)
>
> when i install rh7.3 and its grub version on hd1, grub will boot hd0
> (win2k) and hd1 (the rh7.3 volume)
>
> i have used grub-install --recheck and all drives are mapped (albeit at
> the moment in rh7.3 talk: fd0, sda, sdb, sdc), and have tried myriad ways
> to edit the hd not initially listed (in this case hd2), but i still get
>
> error 15 root (hd2,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
> Error 15: File not found
>
>
> the full grub entry for hd2 on this dual processor machine is
> rh9DB (2.4.20-8smp)
> root (hd2,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
> initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8smp.img
> rh9DB (2.4.20-8)
> root (hd2,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
> initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
>
> I used root=LABEL=/ as that is what is listed for / in /etc/fstab on hd2
> (rh9)
>
I may be off base, but I'll take a shot.
When you installed, I'm guessing you let RH format the partition. RH
gives it a label of /. If you install two versions, you may have two
partions named /. This can cause problems even when on different
drives. I always rename the partitions to reflect the version installed
(for example I have RH 8, RH 9 and Fedora Core 1 installed on partitions
named RH8, RH9 and fc1). I then make sure fstab and grub.conf point to
these labels.
The other thing that I see that is different in your grub.conf (as
compared to mine) is the location of the boot images.
Yours:
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
> initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
Mine:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=RH90 hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
^^^^^
Maybe one of these will fix your problem.
Good luck.
Doug
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