Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-14 Thread Bob McGowan
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 01:41 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/13/2008 08:59 PM, H. S. wrote: > > [...] <--deleted--> > > My Debian system doesn't have a grub.conf but a /boot/grub/menu.lst > instead. I create boot stanzas by modifying menu.lst, but I've heard > that FC users need to edit grub.co

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2008 08:59 PM, H. S. wrote: [...] Now, if understand this right, with that rootnoverify stuff in Debian grub, that entry will lead me to FC9's grub, correct? In that case, I still don't have the grub.conf in FC9's grub. How do I go about getting that? grub-install seemed not to work in t

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-13 Thread H. S.
Mumia W.. wrote: s. That allows me two advantages: I can use chain-loading for the secondary OS's, and each Linux OS has perfect boot stanzas in their respective /boot/grub/menu.lst files. Good idea. I recommend installing Grub under FC9, but install it to the superblock of /dev/sda13--NO

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-13 Thread H.S.
H. S. wrote: > > This solved the problem: > 1. Booted in to my Debian system. > > 2. Did > #> grub-install /dev/sda13 BTW, got that solution from here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/partial-success-installing-grub-error-2-643342/ Apparently there is something new in the f

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2008 09:38 AM, H.S. wrote: Hello, I just installed Fedora Core 9 alongside Debian. During the installation I did not update grub and chose not to install grub since I wanted to retain my Debian grub configuration. I have done this before. I just change Debian's grub to put in the releva

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-13 Thread H. S.
This solved the problem: 1. Booted in to my Debian system. 2. Did #> grub-install /dev/sda13 where /dev/sda13 is the other distro's partition(in my case it is Fedora Core 9) which has /boot . 3. Rebooted and selected Fedora's kernel and it worked okay. Regards On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:38 AM,