Re: debian & fedora together

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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:05:47 -0500, John Cox <pkands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:47:05 -0800, cfk <cfk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sunday 26 December 2004 13:09, John Cox wrote:
> > > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:38:53 -0800, cfk <cfk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Gentlemen:
> > > >
> > > >         Things are getting a little trickier today. So far, on one test
> > > > computer, I have debian on hda1 and fedora3 on hda3. Each one demands
> > > > that it write grub to the MBR.
> > > >
> > > >         If I allow debian to write the MBR, then Fedora doesnt boot.
> > > > Similarly if I let Fedora write to the MBR, then Debian doesnt boot.
> > > >
> > > >         After going back and forth for a while, I have Debian to where it
> > > > will boot and Fedora to where it will almost boot.
> > > >
> > > >         Fedora displays an unusual message right after md: ... autorun
> > > > DONE.
> > > >
> > > > EXT2-fs warning (device hda3): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem
> > > > as ext2
> > > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> > > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
> > > > Warning: unable to open an initial console
> > > > SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
> > > > SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
> > > >
> > > > And the Fedora boot hangs forever at this point.
> > > >
> > > > Would anyone be willing to suggest a next step or two?
> > > >
> > > > Charles
> > >
> > > If you start up using the MBR installed by FC does FC startup OK?
> > > John
> >
> > Dear John:
> >
> >         Either one starts fine with its own grub demands. It is curious that there is
> > no grub.conf with the debian distribution in /boot/grub. A 'find -name grub*'
> > or 'find -name grub.conf' finds nothing with Debian.
> >
> >         I do have the grub incantations for each and am booting debian right now.
> > When I get to the grub prompt and enter the FC incantations, grub compains
> > with an 'Error 27: Unrecognized command' for FC's stuff.
> >
> >         Here are the incantations for each. The first one works with Debian's grub,
> > the second one works with FC's grub and neither works with the other's grub.
> >
> > Debian:
> >
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
> > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386
> > savedefault
> > boot
> >
> > Fedora Core3:
> >
> > root (hd0,2)
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
> > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> >
> > I tried changing the root=LABEL=/1 statement to root=/dev/hda3 to no avail. I
> > am unfamiliar with the '=/1' after LABEL, although I believe LABEL refers to
> > grub.conf on the Fedora partition.
> >
> > The rhgb and quiet stuff leaves me a little puzzled, but I suspect that will
> > be revealed in the fullness of time as I suspect they have to do with the X
> > stuff and not the disk stuff.
> >
> > With Respect, Charles Krinke
> >
> > 
> grub.conf is a redhat thing. Debian uses menu.lst. There is probably a
> menu.lst in fedora that is a link to grub.conf.
> 
> What I would try at this point is just to add the Fedora entry to the
> /boot/grub/menu.lst. of your Debain partition by editing it as root.
> There should be a section for adding other OSs near the end of
> menu.lst.  You should then be able to boot either. Just add what you
> have above from Fedora. Should work.
> 
> Of course, you can do the reverse and install a new grub frorm FC and
> then add the Debian stuff to /boot/grub/grub.conf on your Fedora
> grub.conf
> 
> John
>


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