On Sun October 5 2003 8:02 pm, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> Please write up the steps and post.
My goal was to try Fedora and not risk my existing OS installations (Red Hat 9
and Win 98SE) on my computer's primary hard drive (hda). I also wanted to be
able to select Fedora from the grub screen. A spare 3.2GB hard drive is hdb
on my computer and hdd is a drive used for mirroring.
1. I unplugged the signal cable to all hard drives except hdb. The hdb drive
jumper was left as slave.
2. Booted up with Fedora CD 1. At the Disk Druid step, I created smallish
boot (hdb1) and swap (hdb3) partitions and a large root (hdb2) partition.
The automatic partitioning left root too small and with 512 MB RAM I don't
ever need much swap space. Using a single root partition optimizes the use
of slack space on this small drive. Be sure to make a boot diskette for
insurance.
3. At this point, I booted Fedora from hdb with the other drives still
unplugged (the grub screen had a single entry).
4. Before plugging in the other drive(s), changes need to be made to
/etc/fstab on hbd since now both hda and hbd have partitions with identical
labels and hda will take priority during boot. Edit /etc/fstab from a root
shell look for "LABEL" and change the LABEL nomenclature to something like
this:
/dev/hdb2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
5. Shut Fedora down and and replug the signal cables to the other hard
drive(s).
6. Boot up into your normal Linux and open a root shell.
7. Create a mount point (if needed) and mount /dev/hdb.
8. The next step is to update /boot/grub/grub.conf on hda with a section from
the same file on hdb. I opened two gedit sessions and used cut and paste and
then edited the section to this (on hda):
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2061.nptl)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl ro root=/dev/hdb2 hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl.img
Note that "hd1" had to be changed from "hd0". The "root=/dev/hdb2" had to be
changed from LABEL nomenclature.
9. That should do it. Shut down and reboot. The line
Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2061.nptl)
should be on your grub screen.
