Re: Dual boot: 2 Linux's on same disk

[qqq1one @yahoo.com]

OK, I just figured it out.  Newbie mistake.  I needed to be more consistent in 
using partition
numbers (i.e. (hd0,?)).  Or perhaps I could also have used /dev/sd? notation as 
well, I haven't
tested that yet.

So I was still using parition labels in my grub.conf file, but the actual 
labels on the partitions
didn't match the labels I was trying to use.

So my working grub.conf file entry for Linux distribution #2 looks like this:

  title Fedora Core 7 (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda6 rhgb quiet
        initrd (hd0,1)/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img

Whereas before it looked like this:

  title Fedora Core 7 (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda6 rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img

And I suppose it still could have worked with partition labels if I had done 
them right, but I
didn't want to have a boot_a partition label and a boot_b partition label.  
That's a little
confusing when partition boot_a or partition boot_b gets mounted as /boot.  I 
think it's clearer
to just mount /dev/sda1 as /boot or /dev/sda2 as /boot.

--- "qqq1one @yahoo.com" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.  Since reading it, I have read up some on the ext3 256 
> byte inode
> problem,
> which I had no clue about.  It seems to be an issue if you are trying to use 
> a a pre-0.97-21
> GRUB
> to boot to a filesystem with 256-byte inodes (such as FC9 uses).
> 
> This is not the case for me - I am having trouble booting to a 128-byte inode 
> system (FC7) with
> a
> 0.97-33 GRUB (installed by FC9).
> 
> However, I did come across this page:
> 
>   "256-byte Inodes + Unpatched GRUB = No problem"
>   http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=191363
> 
> And this one:
> 
>   "How to install GRUB on the MBR"
>   
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?s=e2dc7e81c110f4a71503b62347698a00&t=975
> 
> And I think there's enough information at these 2 locations to get me beyond 
> the issue I am
> having.
> 
> Cheers! 
> 
> --- adrian15 <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > qqq1one @yahoo.com escribió:
> > > I'm having some trouble dual booting 2 different Linux distributions 
> > > (currently FC9 and FC7)
> > on
> > > the same disk. 
> > 
> > Please learn about the ext3 256 byte inode problematic and try to 
> > install the FC9 grub in the last place.
> > 
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