debian & fedora together

[John Cox]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:38:53 -0800, cfk <cfk at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Gentlemen:
> 
>         Things are getting a little trickier today. So far, on one test computer, I
> have debian on hda1 and fedora3 on hda3. Each one demands that it write grub
> to the MBR.
> 
>         If I allow debian to write the MBR, then Fedora doesnt boot. Similarly if I
> let Fedora write to the MBR, then Debian doesnt boot.
> 
>         After going back and forth for a while, I have Debian to where it will boot
> and Fedora to where it will almost boot.
> 
>         Fedora displays an unusual message right after md: ... autorun DONE.
> 
> EXT2-fs warning (device hda3): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
> ext2
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console
> SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
> SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
> 
> And the Fedora boot hangs forever at this point.
> 
> Would anyone be willing to suggest a next step or two?
> 
> Charles
> 
If you start up using the MBR installed by FC does FC startup OK?
John