Help this moron please with the dual setup please???

[Bazoukas]

I made two partitions. On the sexond partion  i installed Mandrake WITHOUT any bootloader (Lilo and Grub).

  On the First partition I installed RedHat WITH Grub.


 Now When i boot up,  RedHat loads up just fine but in Grub I only see RedHat.
 In order to get into Mandrake I have to use the boot flopy disk.

 I did it this way, because I thought the bootloader of RedHat in the first partition would see Mandrake but it didnt.


 Any help please?    

 Thank you in advance even if you do call me a moron  

[choasmaster]

well, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people. nah, just kidding you did it the same way i would have, in fact i just did almost the same thing. all you have to tell grub is the root drive and the relitive location of the kernel you wish to boot.

grub starts counting drives at 0, then 1, then 2 and so on. im assuming that your 2 hd's are on the ide chain. so here goes what i think the added menu entry in the grub.conf file would be,

title Madrake linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/wherever/the/kerenl/would/happen/to/be
boot

you have to know where the kernel is to boot it, i hope that this helped

[choasmaster]

oops, i just did something dumb, instead of that entrie, could you tell us your partitions and hardrives, it would help

[Bazoukas]

Thank you for your reply  Right now am using Windfuk98 and AOL. Windfuck is in a different HD by the way.   Am gonna do this by memory.


 I will describe to you how my HD is set up accordinly to how I did the Install.

Both are in the same HD.

Mandrake is in hda5(/boot ext 32) hda6( / ext 32) hda7 (swap)

RedHat is in hda1 (boot Journalised) hda2 (/ journalised) hda3 (swap).

Now I know what you are thinking where is hda4. Now that am thinking of it I dont know. I left though 35MB of free space between the two partitions just like a safe zone.
I do know though that both OSs work fine.

[Bazoukas]

btw this may have nothing to do with anything but you never know. My HD is 40 gigs and i broke down the HD almost in half. I left more space for ReHat because when i will get cable again i wanna use it as a server.

[choasmaster]

ahhh, it does help alittle bit, know i know that you only have on hd
can you name all the partitions on the disk, like the redhat boot partition, the mandrake boot partitions, the mandrake partition and the redhatpartition, and anyother slicing you may have done

[Bazoukas]

Yes Sir. I will reboot and go to Redhat and take a look at it now.

[choasmaster]

boot into redhat and type in
cat /etc/fstab
and boot into mandrake and type in
cat /etc/fstab

and post what both of them tell you

[Bazoukas]

shitzor,,,,,am getting a kernel panic,,,,i had 3 hours now trying to fix it. Am almost done. When am done ill post what i got from those commands

[Bazoukas]

Ok here is an update. I reinstalled Mandrake,,Lilo saw the slave HD with windfart in it.

  But when I tried to make a second partition on the free space where i have Madrake it said that it was unable to do so.

 The space in question is blank. I formated it though as ext3 and ext2 just to see if i can reformat it with the "fdisk" that RedHat has but it was no success/

[Master of Reality]

what happened.. what error?

[Bazoukas]

it said something about the geometry of the Hard Disk.

 I dont get it. The first i tried it it worked. But anyway now I placed Mandrake in One HD winfart in the second HD and RedHat on the 3rd HD.

  Lilo sees Mandrake and Winfart but i need to make it see RedHat as well.

 Am guessing i have to type some kind of command.