Grub question SOLVED

[Dustpuppy]

I've just installed Suse on my second harddrive (first harddrive has Mandrake 10OE dual booted with XP), and although grub found XP perfectly fine, I can't now boot into Mandrake.

 

What should I add to the grub bootloader for it to find Mandy?

 

My partitions are:

 

/dev/hda 57.2GB

/dev/hda1 34.2GC windows

/dev/hda2 23.0GB extended

/dev/hda5 5.8GB linux native

/dev/hda6 500MB linux swap

/dev/hda7 16.6GB linux native

.dev.hdb 38.1GB

/dev/hdb1 1011MB linux swap

/dev/hdb2 37GB linux native /

 

hda is the Mandrake/XP harddrive, hdb the suse one.

 

Edited October 27, 2004 by Dustpuppy

[Dustpuppy]

... alternatively, how do I add Suse to lilo?

[Leo]

... alternatively, how do I add Suse to lilo?

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Assuming that /dev/hda5 contains your MDK root, amend your /boot/grub/menu.lst

(would this be in your SUSE partitions since I have assumed that the issue only occured after the install of SUSE?) to include something along the lines of:

 title Mandrake 10.0
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=788
initrd /boot/initrd.img

this assumes that your kernel image is in /boot/vmlinuz and that your initrd image is in /boot/initrd.img if not amend the relevant sections.

 

you may also want to muck about with the options in the third line with entries for acpi and such, but this should get MDK booted up.

Edited October 27, 2004 by Leo

[Dustpuppy]

Thankyou!

 

I've finally got it working by changing the Mandrake boot thingie to grub, and then adding the Suse entry to that. Hurrah!

 

Of course, it's all going to go horribly wrong when I update to Mandrake 10.1 and Suse 9.2 :D