menendez Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 Hello, I have a 2 hard disk system with WinXP on hda and Mandriva 2007.1 KDE on hdb. I had some problems upgrading to 2008 and I want to take a new approach. I would like to add Mandriva 2008 on hdb so that I can boot either 2007.1 and 2008. I would also like to have a partition for keeping files that can be mounted/accessed by either 2007.1 and 2008 If I go into the Mandriva Control Center I get this info on the hdb partitions: Mount point / Device: hdb1 Type: Journalised FS: ext3 Size: 7.8GB (2%) mounted Mount point swap Device: hdb5 Type: Linux swap Size: 3.6GB (1%) Mounted Device: hdb6 Type: Journalized FS: ext3 Size: 267GB (95%) Note that hdb6 is not mounted. This is noticeable from Konqueror too. If in Konqueror I go to System -> Storage Media then I see 160G Media and 8.4G Media where the 1st is WinXP hda and the 2nd is hdb. I wonder why the generic install of Mandriva didn't mount hdb6. Anyways, I would appreciate any recommendations on how to proceed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 I have never seen Mandriva do this in an install; Making a single / directory is fairly common. But, if there is no data being stored in hdb6, then creating an installation there is not a problem. I do not think that sharing any directories works the way you might think. /usr must exist for each installation, and this where most of the additional program files reside. /home is a possibility, but different versions of a desktop can have a problem. For example, if KDE 3.5 is being used in both installs, it works fine. But, if a different version is used in each, then the personal file, /home/username/.kde might not work for one or the other. Shared swap is not a problem at all. I would just make a whole install onto the available space. If you wish to try to use a common /home, then prior to installing, create a /home partition, transfer your data there (Hard drake will do all this automatically for you) and then identify that partition in the new install. Do not format your /home when the time comes. (The installer is smart and generally does not tic that partition for formatting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menendez Posted October 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 Here is what I've done. I started Mandriva 2008 in LiveCD mode Started Live Install I resized the hd6 partition to shrink it by 12 GB From the new free 12GB space I created a new partition for Mandriva 2008 It looks like it got called hd7 The bootloader install did not seem to recognize Mandriva 2007.1 I got to the part where it says to restart machine and remove the Live CD. I did this. I got the boot loader screen showing Mandriva 2008 and Windows XP (default) I selected Mandriva 2008 and got to the screen with the progress bar. The boot freezes. I hit escape for the verbose mode and this is what I get: setting default font [ok] configuring kernel parameters [ok] setting clock (local time) [ok] starting udev: wait timeout. Will continue in the background [FAILED] What should I do now? I suppose my WinXP will boot but I suppose I can only get into linux via Live CD. Any help is greatly appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 28, 2007 Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 As I posted, doing partition changes is always better prior to installing, and not during installation. When you reboot, and try start up again, what happens? Also, I would boot into windows just to check it out! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menendez Posted October 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 As I posted, doing partition changes is always better prior to installing, and not during installation.When you reboot, and try start up again, what happens? Also, I would boot into windows just to check it out! ;) Windows boots fine. The Madriva boot freezes. I hit escape for the verbose mode and this is what I get: setting default font [ok] configuring kernel parameters [ok] setting clock (local time) [ok] starting udev: wait timeout. Will continue in the background [FAILED] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 acpi=off When you get the boot screen, hit esc, and type "linux acpi=off" Tell us what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menendez Posted October 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 I was not sure if I was to hit esc at the screen where I have the option of selecting the OS to boot or at the screen after I had selected Mandriva 2008. I did the first and hit OK at message window saying I am entering text only mode. Then hit esc but nothing happened so I selected Mandriva to boot. This time it booted with no problem. I was able to finish the install (config wireless, root password, user account etc). When do I did a restart and tried the graphical boot loader again. It boots with no problem. It seems that I am alright now! :thanks: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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