Fedora Core 3 and Debian 3.0 r4 dual-boot problem

[designerus]

Jeg håper noen kan hjelpe meg med dette. Har crossposted på linuxquestions.org og fedoraforum.org, men ingen svar så langt.

 

Hi.

I have currently one harddisk and 3 operating systems on it (Windows XP, Fedora Core 3 & Debian 3.0 r4). It has 6 partitions and it looks like this:

 

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/dev/hda1 * 1 2547 20458746 7 HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hda2 2548 9729 57689415 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/hda5 2548 4506 15735636 7 HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hda6 4507 8423 31463271 83 Linux

/dev/hda7 8424 8547 995998+ 82 Linux swap

/dev/hda8 8548 9729 9494383+ 83 Linux

################################################## ############

 

I have first installed Windows XP. Then I've installed Fedora Core 3 on /dev/hda6 with only "/" (no /boot & swap). I've also installed grub in Fedora as my boot loader and I can load both Windows and Fedora. This is how my menu.lst looks:

 

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title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770)

root (hd0,5)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.img

title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)

root (hd0,5)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img

title Windows XP

rootnoverify (hd0,0)

chainloader +1

################################################## ############

 

Finally, I've installed Debian 3.0 r4 with swap on /dev/hda7 and "/" on /dev/hda8. I have NOT installed lilo. Now I wanted to modify my menu.lst or grub.conf as described here:

 

enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/04/12/23/2033238.shtml?tid=129&tid=47

 

It says there that I should copy 3 files from /boot on my Debian partition (/dev/hda8) to /boot on my current, Fedora partition (/dev/hda6). However, I could not locate all those 3 files. The required files are:

 

################################################## ############

initrd-xxx.img

System.map-xxx

vmlinuz-xxx

################################################## ############

 

And here is what I have in /boot on Debian root:

 

################################################## ############

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 17 20:03 boot.b -> boot-menu.b

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7988 Apr 13 2002 boot-bmp.b

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6204 Apr 13 2002 boot-compat.b

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7964 Apr 13 2002 boot-menu.b

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6204 Apr 13 2002 boot-text.b

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 728 Apr 13 2002 chain.b

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3888 Mar 17 20:00 config-2.2.20-idepci

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 656 Apr 13 2002 os2_d.b

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224124 Mar 17 20:00 System.map-2.2.20-idepci

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 665509 Mar 17 20:00 vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci

################################################## ############

 

Although, I am missing initrd-xxx.img file.

Thank you for your help.

[drall]

Kan du ikke bare sette opp debians bootloader på hda8 og "chainloade" som du gjør med xp da?

 

edit: eller er woodys lilo for gammel til å støtte booting langt inne på disken?

Endret 17. mars 2005 av drall

[Gronz]

OT: Hva skal du med Debian 3.0?

 

Men som drall sier er den beste løsningen å chainloade. Hvis du ikke vil det, trenger du ikke å kopiere filene, bare lag en ny entry i GRUB som pointer til initrd-imaget og kernel-imaget.

[designerus]

Jeg er ny i linux, så kunne dere forklare med eksempler hva jeg skal gjøre? Hvordan skal man "chainloade"?

[Gronz]

Jeg er ny i linux, så kunne dere forklare med eksempler hva jeg skal gjøre? Hvordan skal man "chainloade"?

For å chainloade velger du i Debian-installasjon å installer LILO på partisjonen hvor Debian er installert (f.eks. /dev/hda3) i stedet for selve MBR'en på disken (f.eks. /dev/hda). Når du har gjort det, åpner du filen /boot/grub/menu.lst eller /boot/grub/grub.conf og legger til dette på bunnen:

 

title Debian Woody

root (hd0,7)

chainloader +1