On Monday 11 July 2005 12:08, Paul Howarth wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: > >(please don't Cc: me on mail posted to the list; I only need to read > it once) > Oops, sorry kmail strikes again. >> On Monday 11 July 2005 11:24, Paul Howarth wrote: >>>Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>This machine is a bit odd in that its actual boot partition isn't >>>>even mounted by FC4. Somehow, in rigging it for dual booting of >>>>FC4 and emc's bdi, its now booting from (hd1,0) instead of >>>>(hd0,0), so that when a new kernel is installed as was the case >>>>this morning, I have to hand modify the /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst >>>>and copy all the new stuffs from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1, which >>>>when its booted to FC4, can be hand mounted as /mnt/bdi-boot. >>>>/dev/hda1 is mounted by FC4 as /boot, but thats not where it >>>> boots from. >>> >>>I'd suggest adding an entry: >>> >>>title Fedora Core 4 >>> rootnoverify (hd0,1) >>> chainloader +1 >>> >>>to /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst >>> >>>You should then be able to pick FC4 from the OS's boot menu, and >>>never have to fiddle with grub entries again. >>> >>>Paul. >> >> What would this do to the grub choice of boots menu? > >Your second OS has installed a new copy of grub in the MBR. The idea > to to add an entry to that OS's grub config to chain-load the FC4 > grub, in much the same way that systems dual-booting Windows > chain-load the Windows bootloader. I've actually done a couple of grub-installs to hda, but it seems to be shooting blanks. :( >> And shouldn't >> that be (hd0,0) which is the 'other' /boot partition that FC4 >> would normally use if somehow grub hadn't been pointed at hdb? > >Yes, it should. You're right. :) >> Currently I have it set (on hdb) for a default that is the newest >> FC4 kernel and its running. But as of this mornings reboot after >> a power failure, its without a kicker, and a dead rhn-applet >> (whatever that is, explain please) from the date of the first yum >> update after the install. e2fsck didn't complain about an unclean >> shutdown either, which seems odd to say the least. > >rhn-applet is broken in FC4. >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160873 Bugzilla again. :p( Is that the little red hat to blinks when there are updates available? And how do I get the kicker back? Is there a *rc file to blow away? >Paul. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
