Subj : Editing menu.lst to boot two distros
To   : alt.comp.linux,comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
From : jch
Date : Wed Sep 22 2004 09:45 am

I'm having a bit of trouble configuring my menu.lst and system to boot a second Linux
installation. I have Win-XP, Suse, and Fedora installed. The PC correctly boots into XP
and Suse but I since I've added Suse I can't figure out how to boot into Fedora. I've
tried but I'm doing something wrong. 

From Suse, here's my current menu.lst:

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 2
timeout 20
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
 
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE
    kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x31a splash=silent desktop
resume=/dev/hda5 showopts
    initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd
 
###Attempting to add Fedora Core 1 to the boot options
title Fedora Core 1
    root (hd0,1)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
    initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl.img
    chainloader +1
 
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows - XP
    root (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1
 
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
    root (fd0)
    chainloader +1
 
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe
    kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off
vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0  3
    initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd

Here's the result of a mount command:
/dev/hda6 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hda1 on /windows/C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8)
/dev/hdc on /media/cdrecorder type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/hdd on /media/dvd type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

And here's the fstab file:
/dev/hda6            /                    reiserfs   acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/hda2            /data1               auto       noauto,user           0 0
/dev/hda3            /data2               auto       noauto,user           0 0
/dev/hda1            /windows/C           ntfs      
ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5            swap                 swap       pri=42                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
/dev/cdrecorder      /media/cdrecorder    subfs     
fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvd             /media/dvd           subfs     
fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        subfs     
fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0

Here's the response from a df command:
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6             10241024   3577332   6663692  35% /
tmpfs                   258140        24    258116   1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1             38909396  25560380  13349016  66% /windows/C

I don't know that you needed the above but I think my problems have to do with not
properly locating the Fedora installation.

Thank you. The error I get from this particular menu.lst attempt on boot-up when choosing
the Fedora option has something to do with unexecutable format. Obviously I have
something wrong.
Originally, Fedora was installed first. Then I installed Suse a few weeks later. I got
the menu.lst entry for Fedora from the Fedora installation but it doesn't work here.  As
you can tell, I'm pretty new at this. Thank you for your help.

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