Re: What is the proper GRUB stuff for dual booting?

From: Matthew Crouch (matthew.crouch_at_spamlessverizon.net)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:22:58 GMT

In article <pan.2004.05.21.01.32.09.479667@sbcglobal.net>, "Douglas
Bowyer" <dwbowyer@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:51:16 +0000, Matthew Crouch wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 May 2004 01:38:30 +0000, Douglas Bowyer wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 19 May 2004 21:26:16 +0000, Matthew Crouch wrote: If /boot
>>> were created and mounted as, say /hda4, then /boot/vmlinuz can
>
>> I appreciate the help. It seems like a /boot partition is not strictly
>> required. Matter of fact, I'm sure it isn't, since I successfully did
>> this:
>
>> upgraded-7.3 That required a good deal of tinkering with grub.conf, but
>> I never made a boot partition.
>>
>> No real reason I'm resisting such a step, except a hunch that it could
>> be simpler if I just had the right line in the conf.
>
> We I know that with relative pathing that it is possible (but didn't
> exactly know how) to just edit the grub.conf to point to /dev/hda*, and
> in fact mjt gave the way to do it (which I promptly saved for later
> reference). But figured that fiddling with the config file was something
> you might prefer to avoid. And really, there isn't much need to have a
> boot dir for each installed version. Either way, good luck.

It's all better now. In case anyone has been on the edge of hisher seat
following this thread, here's my working grub.conf entries:

title rh8
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-28.8 root=/dev/hda1
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-28.8.img

title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img

the rh8 looks quite a bit like one of my earlier attempts
BUT
It didn't work until I copied the vmlinuz and initrd into Fedora's
partition. If I had to guess, I would say that's bad in some way, but
since both OSs work I'm not complaining yet.

Thanks again