Re: debian & fedora together

From: cfk (cfk_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 12/26/04

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    To: fedora-list@redhat.com, John Cox <pkands@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:47:05 -0800

    On Sunday 26 December 2004 13:09, John Cox wrote:
    > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:38:53 -0800, cfk <cfk@pacbell.net> wrote:
    > > Gentlemen:
    > >
    > > Things are getting a little trickier today. So far, on one test
    > > computer, I have debian on hda1 and fedora3 on hda3. Each one demands
    > > that it write grub to the MBR.
    > >
    > > If I allow debian to write the MBR, then Fedora doesnt boot.
    > > Similarly if I let Fedora write to the MBR, then Debian doesnt boot.
    > >
    > > After going back and forth for a while, I have Debian to where it
    > > will boot and Fedora to where it will almost boot.
    > >
    > > Fedora displays an unusual message right after md: ... autorun
    > > DONE.
    > >
    > > EXT2-fs warning (device hda3): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem
    > > as ext2
    > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
    > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
    > > Warning: unable to open an initial console
    > > SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
    > > SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
    > >
    > > And the Fedora boot hangs forever at this point.
    > >
    > > Would anyone be willing to suggest a next step or two?
    > >
    > > Charles
    >
    > If you start up using the MBR installed by FC does FC startup OK?
    > John

    Dear John:

            Either one starts fine with its own grub demands. It is curious that there is
    no grub.conf with the debian distribution in /boot/grub. A 'find -name grub*'
    or 'find -name grub.conf' finds nothing with Debian.

            I do have the grub incantations for each and am booting debian right now.
    When I get to the grub prompt and enter the FC incantations, grub compains
    with an 'Error 27: Unrecognized command' for FC's stuff.

            Here are the incantations for each. The first one works with Debian's grub,
    the second one works with FC's grub and neither works with the other's grub.

    Debian:

    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386
    savedefault
    boot

    Fedora Core3:

    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img

    I tried changing the root=LABEL=/1 statement to root=/dev/hda3 to no avail. I
    am unfamiliar with the '=/1' after LABEL, although I believe LABEL refers to
    grub.conf on the Fedora partition.

    The rhgb and quiet stuff leaves me a little puzzled, but I suspect that will
    be revealed in the fullness of time as I suspect they have to do with the X
    stuff and not the disk stuff.

    With Respect, Charles Krinke 

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