Re: dual-boot, 2k and Fedora Core 2

Some Other Somebody Else responded to my plea:

And I thank you very much.

What exactly happens next in your case; does the system just lock up?
I can boot the Fedora OK.
When I attempt to boot the win2k, I see the aforementioned lines (the
same as the contents of that portion of the grub.conf file). The
computer then just hangs.

When you boot Fedora and enter "df" on a command line, what is the output?
Filesystem 1k-blocks used available use%
Mounted on
/dev/hdb1 288451232 6441748 267357004 3% /
none 778720 0 778720 0%
/dev/shm

This is about what I think I might have expected. All of Fedora is
mounted on the second, new drive. I had hoped that the first, win2k
drive would not have to be touched. I intended that grub should have
been loaded on the new drive when the installer asked me about that.
I'm pretty sure that win2k is still on hda (the primary master), and
all the Fedora is on hdb (primary slave).

What does the remainder of your grub.conf file look like?

#brub.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 (hd1,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rghb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Windows 2K
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
map (hd0,0) (hd1,0)
map (hd1,0) (hd0,0)

chainloader +1

..........................END OF
FILE....................................................

My guess is that my problem is with the grub, somewhere somehow--I
don't have much to go on yet. I tried various combinations of what to
boot from first in the BIOS, but that doesn't have any effect for the
things I tried.

The only reason I am using Fedora2 is that I have a copy that was given
to me. I figured I'd play with that, then spend a bit of money getting
the latest, with some books to go with it, etc. Anyway, it doesn't
seem to be the Fedora I'm having a hard time with; just the grub and
getting to see the old win2k (It's not that I WANT to see the win2k,
but I have some programs for classes on it, so I rather HAVE to see
win2k.)

So, does any of this further the effort?
Thanks

.

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