Well I actually did install grub in the mbr. It was a little tricky restoring the mbr (my win2k server cd isnt bootable but my win2k pro cd was)
Ben, what you have there is almost exact to what I had (read below). My setup is a little weird tho. I have two hard drives, and I have my linux install on the D: drive, so its like (it said somewhere) /dev/hdb3/ or some thing like that. I usually let the install auto allocate the sizes for me, if I'm not mistaken I reserved 15gigs, which I may use partition majik to wipe those partitions, increase it to 20gigs and also make a fat32 partition of about 5 gigs to share between linux and windows (that's how I should do it right?)
When I go back, just to make things clear from the start, I want to get some good info, and redo it fresh and clean and try to do it right.
Ben, I found the code I posted on a forum, this is what I had:
Somewhee I read that the splashimage will yield weird results, so at some point I commented that line out.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd1,4) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb6 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) root (hd1,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img title Windows unhide (hd0,0) rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:02, PCDEBB | Fedora-list wrote:
Well I actually did install grub in the mbr. It was a little tricky restoring the mbr (my win2k server cd isnt bootable but my win2k pro cd was)
Ah - okay. In my (few) dual boot systems, I have always taken this path with a clean system, based on advice found googling...
- boot from my linux install media, and use the partition tool to make a windows partition and a number of linux partitions (I am old-school and dislike lumping limux into one or two partitions). I usually make linux's /boot the first partition on the first disk, then windows the second partition on the first disk. This setup is likely to work with most bootloaders (Eg. lilo). It may be both lilo and grub don't require this anymore. - Drop out of the linux install and install windows from media in the partition allocated - reboot with linux install media. Redhat (and subsequently Fedora) do a great job recognizing and accomodating an existing windows installation, so I can let the installer (anaconda) create my grub config, which goes in the MBR, not on /dev/hda1 - complete the linux install, reboot and test both bootloading options.
But I have always approached this problem with windows as the secondary O/S, not with it already installed as the primary.
Ben, what you have there is almost exact to what I had (read below). My setup is a little weird tho. I have two hard drives, and I have my linux install on the D: drive, so its like (it said somewhere) /dev/hdb3/ or some
I always try and have my linux boot partition close to the front of the first disk, but I don't believe grub requires this.
thing like that. I usually let the install auto allocate the sizes for me, if I'm not mistaken I reserved 15gigs, which I may use partition majik to wipe those partitions, increase it to 20gigs and also make a fat32 partition of about 5 gigs to share between linux and windows (that's how I should do it right?)
Sounds fine - do you have a partition for linux swap?
When I go back, just to make things clear from the start, I want to get some good info, and redo it fresh and clean and try to do it right.
Are you able to re-install windows, or do you want to avoid that? Is you reinstall both OSes, I'd recommend the steps above. But if you have a windows setup you are happy with, you probably don't want to reinstall it.
Ben, I found the code I posted on a forum, this is what I had:
Somewhee I read that the splashimage will yield weird results, so at some point I commented that line out.
Shouldn't if you use the default one. I hosed grub a few times getting a custom image in there, until I knew the correct image format/colour depth.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd1,4) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb6 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) root (hd1,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img title Windows unhide (hd0,0) rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive
Cheers, Ben
Em Qua, 2003-12-03 às 11:54, Ben Stringer escreveu:
(....)
- Drop out of the linux install and install windows from media in the
partition allocated
- reboot with linux install media. Redhat (and subsequently Fedora) do a
great job recognizing and accomodating an existing windows installation, so I can let the installer (anaconda) create my grub config, which goes in the MBR, not on /dev/hda1
- complete the linux install, reboot and test both bootloading options.
It's a little 'piece de resistence' when fedora's grub calls any windows partition 'DOS'?
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 22:32, PCDEBB | Fedora-list wrote: [lots of stuff!]
woah... First things first: stop and take a deep breath. Everyone is suggesting huge reinstalls (of both windows and linux), formats, re-partitioning, etc, etc yadda yadda yadda. Don't be impatient and just go ahead with all that! You can waste hours. Its better to spend your time on something else while you're waiting for the right answer from the mailing list (not that this is necessarily the right answer :)
So long as you haven't deleted anything, your pc can be fixed with no doubt a few simple commands. The first one being suggested already: grub-install
It _should_ find all the grub files ok, since they're in /boot, and then repost with your results.
Hope this saves some time,
Yes, I agree with Iain. You don't need deep, draconian measures here. Using your boot disk and then using the grub-install program should help you out. Why don't you go to IBM's developerWorks site and read their excellent tutorials on Grub.
As an aside, it really should not be difficult to install Fedora on one of two hard drives. As long as Windows was installed first, and you installed Grub on /dev/hda, you should be fine. These days the only time I have a problem with multiple operating systems is when trying to install Linux on each of 2 hard drives as the only operating systems.
That brings up the conceptually hard part: if you install Linux on /dev/hda and also on /dev/hdb, you have to edit the grub.conf and /etc/fstab files and use the e2label program to make sure your drives have unique partition labels.
But for your purposes, so long as you installed the grub bootloader you should be able to dual boot both Windows 2000 and Fedora with no sweat. You can pretty much trust the installer. It doesn't wreck anything, at least it doesn't in my experience.
(The Red Hat 6.0/6.1 installers were different stories. Now those were horrible. But that was a long, long, happily forgotten time ago.)
Bob
Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 22:32, PCDEBB | Fedora-list wrote: [lots of stuff!]
woah... First things first: stop and take a deep breath. Everyone is suggesting huge reinstalls (of both windows and linux), formats, re-partitioning, etc, etc yadda yadda yadda. Don't be impatient and just go ahead with all that! You can waste hours. Its better to spend your time on something else while you're waiting for the right answer from the mailing list (not that this is necessarily the right answer :)
So long as you haven't deleted anything, your pc can be fixed with no doubt a few simple commands. The first one being suggested already: grub-install
It _should_ find all the grub files ok, since they're in /boot, and then repost with your results.
Hope this saves some time,
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 10:03, Robert L Cochran wrote: [snip]
That brings up the conceptually hard part: if you install Linux on /dev/hda and also on /dev/hdb, you have to edit the grub.conf and /etc/fstab files and use the e2label program to make sure your drives have unique partition labels.
Not even this is necessary, the installer should have done that: On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 22:32, PCDEBB | Fedora-list wrote:
I usually let the install auto allocate the sizes for me,
[Rob:]
But for your purposes, so long as you installed the grub bootloader you should be able to dual boot both Windows 2000 and Fedora with no sweat. You can pretty much trust the installer. It doesn't wreck anything, at least it doesn't in my experience.
I agree!
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