Adding fc2trc to Grub menu

[Steven P. Ulrick]

Hello, Everyone :)
I did all I reasonbly could to answer this on my own, and I found no
applicable information.
Here's the scenario: I have four devices hooked up to the two ide busses
on my motherboard.  They could be described something like this:
primary master: Western Digital 120 gig HD
primary slave: CD-ROM, indeterminate origin
Secondary Master: Maxtor 120 gig HD
Secondary Slave: Maxtor 40 gig HD

I have grub installed on the master boot record, but I installed FC2TR3
on the Secondary Slave, and chose to install GRUB on that disc, so my
main systems GRUB configuration would not get wiped out.  What I would
like to do is either burn a CD that would boot right to my Fedora Core 2
test release 3 installation, like a boot floppy used to when we could
make those.  Or, I would like to add my Secondary Slave (I'm ASSUMING it
is "hd3", since my grub.conf says that the location of my kernels is
(hd0,0)) to my GRUB boot menu.

The following is my grub.conf, with one kernel from my Fedora Core 1
installation, and my attempt at booting FC2TR3 being the only entries
I'm going to burden you with :):
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2188.nptl)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
	initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.img
title Fedora Core 2tr3 (2.6.5-1.327)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
	initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.327.img

Here, I hope, is the /boot directory that I got the 2tr3 information
from:
grub/
lost+found/
boot.b
chain.b
config-2.6.5-1.327
initrd-2.6.5-1.327.img
memtest86+-1.11
os2_d.b
System.map-2.6.5-1.327
vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327

I have (hd2,1) in my "root" line in grub.conf, but that is just the last
guess I made at trying to get this to work on my own.  I tried (hd3,0)
and (hd3,1), and nothing worked.

If this has been answered elsewhere, please feel free to just give me a
link to where it's been answered, and I'll be glad to take it from
there.  Of course, if I can't figure it out then, THEN I'll come back to
the experts (you, of course :))

Have a Great Day :)
Steven P. Ulrick

[Peter Boy]

Am So, den 02.05.2004 schrieb Steven P. Ulrick um 20:07:
[...]
>  Here's the scenario: I have four devices hooked up to the two ide
> busses
>  on my motherboard.  They could be described something like this:
>  primary master: Western Digital 120 gig HD
>  primary slave: CD-ROM, indeterminate origin
>  Secondary Master: Maxtor 120 gig HD
>  Secondary Slave: Maxtor 40 gig HD
>  
>  I have grub installed on the master boot record, but I installed FC2TR3
>  on the Secondary Slave, and chose to install GRUB on that disc,  
I'm not shure, what what you exactly did. Did you partition your disc to
have a separate /boot partition (/dev/hdc1 traditionally) and a
partition for root (/dev/hdc2) and did you instruct grub to install in
/dev/hdc1? In this case you may try:

title Fedora Core 2tr3 (2.6.5-1.327)
        rootnoverify (hd2,0)
        chainloader +1

Should work the same way, if you did install all the stuff into one
partition ( /dev/hdc1 = hd(2,0) )


Given your setup, what is the error message you receive?


Peter

[Steven P. Ulrick]

On Sun, 02 May 2004 21:01:52 +0200
Peter Boy <pboy(a)barkhof.uni-bremen.de&gt; wrote:

>  Am So, den 02.05.2004 schrieb Steven P. Ulrick um 20:07:
>  [...]
>  > Here's the scenario: I have four devices hooked up to the two ide
>  > busses on my motherboard.  They could be described something like
>  > this: primary master: Western Digital 120 gig HD
>  > primary slave: CD-ROM, indeterminate origin
>  > Secondary Master: Maxtor 120 gig HD
>  > Secondary Slave: Maxtor 40 gig HD
>  > 
>  > I have grub installed on the master boot record, but I installed
>  > FC2TR3 on the Secondary Slave, and chose to install GRUB on that
>  > disc, 
>  
>  I'm not shure, what what you exactly did. Did you partition your disc
>  to have a separate /boot partition (/dev/hdc1 traditionally) and a
>  partition for root (/dev/hdc2) and did you instruct grub to install in
>  /dev/hdc1? In this case you may try:
>  
>  title Fedora Core 2tr3 (2.6.5-1.327)
>          rootnoverify (hd2,0)
>          chainloader +1
>  
>  Should work the same way, if you did install all the stuff into one
>  partition ( /dev/hdc1 = hd(2,0) )
>  
>  
>  Given your setup, what is the error message you receive?
>  
>  
>  Peter 
Hello, Peter :)
I added the entry you said I should try to grub.conf, and it works like
a charm :)  But now I understand why some people are talking on the
kde-devel list about KDE not working on Fedora Core.  KDE won't even
start :(  But hey, the reason I installed Fedora Core 2 Test Release 3
is to try to install KDE from source, and possible from CVS HEAD, so
that maybe we can figure out why some peopl are having these issues.
But thanks again, Peter.  Other than the KDE issue, everything worked
perfectly :)

Steven P. Ulrick

[Peter Boy]

Am So, den 02.05.2004 schrieb Steven P. Ulrick um 22:58:
>  I added the entry you said I should try to grub.conf, and it works
> like
>  a charm :)   
Fine!



Peter

[Gerry Tool]

Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>  Hello, Peter :)
>  I added the entry you said I should try to grub.conf, and it works like
>  a charm :)  But now I understand why some people are talking on the
>  kde-devel list about KDE not working on Fedora Core.  KDE won't even
>  start :(   
What are you talking about?  It works fine for me.  I use both KDE and 
Gnome.  Switchdesk (version 4.0.3.1) is even fixed to the point where 
one can easily switch back and forth (bugzilla #121840.)

Gerry Tool

[Steven P. Ulrick]

On Sun, 02 May 2004 19:47:47 -0500
Gerry Tool <gstool(a)earthlink.net&gt; wrote:

>  Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>  > Hello, Peter :)
>  > I added the entry you said I should try to grub.conf, and it works
>  > like a charm :)  But now I understand why some people are talking on
>  > the kde-devel list about KDE not working on Fedora Core.  KDE won't
>  > even start :(  
>  
>  What are you talking about?  It works fine for me.  I use both KDE and
>  
>  Gnome.  Switchdesk (version 4.0.3.1) is even fixed to the point where 
>  one can easily switch back and forth (bugzilla #121840.)
>  
>  Gerry Tool 
Hello, Gerry :)
Unfortunately, I had only tried to log into KDE once since I had
installed Fedora Core 2, Test Release 3.  When I logged back in later
that night to begin installing KDE from CVS HEAD, it did log in :)  So I
do apologize for any confusion that I've created.
Off topic a little bit, but KDE from CVS HEAD is compiling and
installing wonderfully.  It will be interesting to find out why an
unusual amount of people are having Fedora Core/KDE related issues.  If
anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about, check out the "DANGER
Fedora" (The capitals in "Danger" are not mine. :))  thread on the
Kde-Devel mailing list.

Anyway, have a Great Day :)
Steven P. Ulrick