thebrookster 0 Report post Posted June 12, 2006 I am currently having some issues with Grub. I am trying to triple-boot Win XP, FC5 and Mandriva 2006, all from one HDD. I initially installed Win XP, then installed Mandriva. Mandriva overwrote the MBR with Grub, which worked satisfactorily. I then installed FC5, and told it to install its own Grub bootloader. Unfortunately it now boots up into Windows and Fedora quite happily, but when I try to boot into Mandriva it keeps on coming up with Kernel Panic messages. I have tried various alterations of grub.conf with no success. This is the contents of my grub.conf file in Fedora: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,2) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=2 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2122_FC5) root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5) root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img title Mandriva 2006 root (hd0,4) kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-22mdk-i686-up-4GB initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.12-22mdk-i686-up-4GB.img title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 If anyone can offer me any help I would be extremely grateful, as I would much rather have Mandriva available then XP! :P Many thanks in Advance. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scarecrow 0 Report post Posted June 12, 2006 kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-22mdk-i686-up-4GB initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.12-22mdk-i686-up-4GB.img Try changing that to kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-22mdk-i686-up-4GB ro root=/dev/hda5 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.12-22mdk-i686-up-4GB.img Simplest would be keeping a small ( ~ 32MB ) common /boot partition, formatted as ext2, but now it's quite a bit of work to do that... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arctic 0 Report post Posted June 12, 2006 If you have only one Kernel installed for Mandriva, then title linux kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 resume=/dev/hda?? splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img should be enough. Replace the /dev/hda?? with the entry for your /swap, of course (/dev/hda2?). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thebrookster 0 Report post Posted June 12, 2006 If you have only one Kernel installed for Mandriva, then title linux kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 resume=/dev/hda?? splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img should be enough. Replace the /dev/hda?? with the entry for your /swap, of course (/dev/hda2?). Many thanks, altho I have a couple of kernels I only use one, so this option worked. Scarecrow, you mention that it is possible to create a small /boot partition, just how difficult is this. Are there any instructions on the web anywhere telling me how to do this, as I may give it a try at some point. I have a funny feeling it may make life easier in the long term. :P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
