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&gt;&gt;From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org] On Behalf Of
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&gt;Trey
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&gt;&gt;Sizemore
&gt;&gt;Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:16 PM
&gt;&gt;To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
&gt;&gt;Subject: Re: [ale] Getting Linux OS to boot
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&gt;&gt;Geoffrey wrote:
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&gt;&gt;&gt;Trey Sizemore wrote:
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&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;Geoffrey wrote:
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&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;What does the grub config file look like?  You might try running
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;grub-install.
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&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;Well, I've not got it where I can boot to Mandrake (rescue mode
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;allowed me to install grub on the slave drive's MBR).  So now the
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;trick will be to add the other distros to Mandrake's grub.conf
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;file...haven't done that in quite a while.  I'm sure with a little
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;digging I can remember the format.
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&gt;&gt;&gt;It's pretty straight forward, just keep the number correct.  The
&gt;&gt;&gt;actual references to the filesystems (/dev/hda1) will be the same,
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&gt;but
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&gt;&gt;&gt;remember:
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&gt;&gt;&gt;root (hd0,7)  is /dev/hda8
&gt;&gt;&gt;root (hd1,1)  is /dev/hdb2
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&gt;&gt;&gt;Make sure you get the kernel names right as some use variations.
&gt;&gt;&gt;Also, some use different references to the initrd image:
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&gt;&gt;&gt;SuSE:        initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd
&gt;&gt;&gt;Mandrake:    initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
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&gt;&gt;Do I need to add entries in Mandrake's /etc/fstab before they can be
&gt;&gt;booted from entries in lilo.conf?
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&gt;No.  fstab is only used after boot to know what to mount.  And I thought
&gt;we were talking about grub, not lilo??
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Well, in the Mandrake rescue mode, I told it to install the bootloader 
to the MBR for /dev/hdb, but it didn't prompt me for which one.  I can 
find a lilo.conf but no grub.conf even though both are installed.  I 
don't know *which* bootloader it is!



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