Installed FC2 on hdb but lost FC1 on fda.

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu May 20 23:46:15 UTC 2004


Am Fr, den 21.05.2004 schrieb Dave um 00:57:

> Sorry for replying to my own but I had a tinker with the grub.conf from
> FC2 (hdb).
> 
> It used to be...
> 
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
>         root (hd1,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
> title FC1
>         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> 
> Then I added between the two titles...
> 
> title Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2188.nptl)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.img
> 
> And that lets me boot into FC1 on hda now :)
> 
> But I just wondered if I'd got the kernel line right, for 'Fedora Core
> 1', should I have copied the LABEL exactly including the "1" ?

No! The /1 label is important for the new FC2 install, while the FC1
root (/) partition is labeled just /. Do not change that, as it is
correct now.

> After booting back into FC1 on hda I checked the grub.conf and the line
> was ...
> 
> 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb 

The hdc=ide-scsi is necessary on FC1 if you have a CD burning device as
master on secondary IDE controller. Add it to the new grub.conf if you
want to burn CDs on FC1.

> Should I add in "hdc=ide-scsi" to the grub.conf I'm now using from hdb?
> I presume that's the CDROM?

It is not necessary for using a CD-ROM device, only for a burning
device. On FC2 do not use ide-scsi. Now with kernel 2.6 it works
different, see the release notes for this.

> Dave

Alexander


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