[FSUG-Bangalore] Fedora not getting after install Debian

[Saju A P]

I first installed Fedora core 5 and then I installed Debian Sarge. Now
my boot loader is updated by debian system now it's work on debian
boot loader. I think your settings is already on my Debian menu.list.

On 8/7/06, B S Srinidhi <srinidhi at srinidhi-is.in> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 11:32 +0530, Saju A P wrote:
>
> <snip fstab & menu.lst>
>
> > fstab entry on Fedora Core 5
> >
> > LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> > devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> > proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> > sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> > LABEL=SWAP-hda91        swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hda1               /disk1                  vfat    defaults        0 0
> >
> >
> > menu.list entry on Fedora Core 5
> >
> > default=0
> > timeout=5
> > splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > hiddenmenu
> > title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
> >       root (hd0,7)
> >       kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> >       initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
> > title Windows
> >       rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> >       chainloader +1
> >
> >
> >
>
> You need to edit the above entry and change the _kernel_ line to read
> something like this:
>
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/hda8 rhgb
>         quiet
>
> Note: I've taken the device name (/dev/hda8) from the Debian's menu.lst.
> I assume that the entry in Debian's menu.lst is correct and it works.
>
> The problem is that when you installed FC, you assigned a LABEL, to your
> 'root' partition. But when GRUB found that there's already a partition
> which has the same LABEL, '/', as your FC root, it complained. Once you
> are in, do read the GRUB's manual to understand more about this problem.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Srinidhi.
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