On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Sadaruwan Samaraweera slinuxworld@gmail.com wrote:>
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Ian Forde ian@duckland.org wrote:
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 09:47 +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote:
Hello,
And the problem that I'm having is with my two Linux distros. Ive installed CentOS & Windows in my SATA HDD and I've used my complete 40GB PATA HDD for Ubuntu. Well all OS's work fine with out any problems but when I want to boot into CentOS I've to select the SATA as my booting HDD from the BIOS if I want to go to Ubuntu the I've to select my PATA as the default HDD from the menu. So what I want to do is I need to add Both distros in to one GRUB boot loader and the other thing is that both grubs that I've on both HDD s only detects the windows Partition not the Linux partion. So I need to to know how to add bothe Linux versions I've into one GRUB. I want to use the SATA HDD as my default HDD.
You'll want to merge the grub boot stanzas into one file, apply it to one (or both) of the drives, and keep it in sync when you do kernel updates (because those affect the grub menu)... This way, you won't have to change the BIOS setting.
OK, thx for the quick reply but I realy don't know how to do that can any one help on that note.
Possibly what you need to do is add another entry in your /etc/grub.conf file, on the HD you boot from. Below is mine.
[lanny@dell2400 ~]$ sudo cat /etc/grub.conf Password: # 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 (hd0,2) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.10.el5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.img acpi=off title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.6.el5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.img acpi=off title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.1.el5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.img acpi=off title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 [lanny@dell2400 ~]$