Re: Booting FC2 from hard disk w/RedHat 8

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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:06:21 -0700
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

Thanks, Phil -- but I think I'm still too vague on the details. I'm
trying to install from
HD b/c I haven't been able to burn CD's successfully.

I get "file not found" when it is looking for the kernel. So somehow
I'm not pointing
quite right. I have the isos in the partition labeled dkernel (below) ,
and I planned to
install FC2 in the partition labeled distrotest. DOS and Red Hat Linux
boot fine; the
others I have no idea about whether they are correct or not. dkernel and
distrotest are
both partitions on hdb; /boot is on hda.

 Please forgive the long post below.

My /etc/fstab is

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/distrotest /distrotest ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/dkernel /dkernel ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/apollo ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hercules ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda4 /mnt/mercury ext3 defaults 0 0

and my hand-edited grub.conf says

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
title KernelTest
        rootnoverify (hd1,5)
        chainloader +1
title DOS
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1
title NewDistro
        rootnoverify (hd1,2)
        chainloader +1
title TryBoot
        root (hd1,5)
        kernel /vmlinuz-FC2 noapic pci=noacpi ramdisk-size=8192
        initrd /initrd-FC2.img

Here is the (edited) /boot directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Sep 5 2002 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Sep 5 2002 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42150 Sep 4 2002 config-2.4.18-14
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 18 17:41 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131410 Oct 5 17:06 initrd-2.4.18-14.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2443013 Oct 12 21:17 initrd-FC2.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 473 Oct 2 18:30 kernel.h
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Oct 2 18:26 lost+found
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Oct 5 17:06 module-info ->
module-info-2.4.18-14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15436 Sep 4 2002
module-info-2.4.18-14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Sep 5 2002 os2_d.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Oct 5 17:06 System.map ->
System.map-2.4.18-14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 507814 Sep 4 2002 System.map-2.4.18-14
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3236438 Sep 4 2002 vmlinux-2.4.18-14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 5 17:06 vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1125194 Sep 4 2002 vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1209805 Oct 12 21:17 vmlinuz-FC2

Phil Schaffner wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 06:45 -0700, Burnie West wrote:
>
>
>>I am running Red Hat 8.0; downloaded the four FC2 iso's into one of
>>several available
>>partitions. Haven't yet been able to find instructions I can follow to
>>boot FC2 from
>>there.
>>
>>Any pointers? Links?
>>
>>
>
>Loopback mount the first ISO image:
>
># mount -ro loop <path>/FC2-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom
>
>Copy kernel and initrd to /boot:
>
># cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-FC2
># cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/initrd-FC2.img
>
>Add the something like the following to /boot/grub/grub.conf:
>
>title Fedora 2 Install
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-FC2 noapic pci=noacpi ramdisk_size=8192
> initrd /initrd-FC2.img
>
>The root device spec above assumes /boot is the first partition on the
>first drive - YMMV.
>
>Reboot and choose "Fedora 2 Install" and "hard disk" install, specifying
>the path to the ISO image directory on the device you saved them to.
>Note that you cannot use the partition with the ISOs for the
>install/upgrade. Recommend a fresh install on separate partition[s] or
>a new disk, keeping the RH8 installation for a dual-boot fallback, and
>as a source for configuration and user information. Would also
>save/backup /home even if on a separate partition and start fresh on
>home directories. A lot has changed in the user config files.
>
>Phil
>
>
>
>

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