Booting FC2 from hard disk w/RedHat 8

[Burnie West]

Thanks, Phil -- but I think I'm still too vague on the details.  I'm 
trying to install from
HD b/c I haven't been able to burn CD's successfully.

I get "file not found" when it is looking for the kernel.  So somehow 
I'm not pointing
quite right.  I have the isos in the partition labeled dkernel (below) , 
and I planned to
install FC2 in the partition labeled distrotest.  DOS and Red Hat Linux 
boot fine; the
others I have no idea about whether they are correct or not. dkernel and 
distrotest are
both partitions on hdb; /boot is on hda.

 Please forgive the long post below.

My /etc/fstab is

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
LABEL=/distrotest       /distrotest             ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/dkernel          /dkernel                ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hdb3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             iso9660 
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda2               /mnt/apollo             ext3    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda3               /mnt/hercules           ext3    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda4               /mnt/mercury            ext3    defaults        0 0

and my hand-edited grub.conf says

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
title KernelTest
        rootnoverify (hd1,5)
        chainloader +1
title DOS
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1
title NewDistro
        rootnoverify (hd1,2)
        chainloader +1
title TryBoot
        root (hd1,5)
        kernel /vmlinuz-FC2 noapic pci=noacpi ramdisk-size=8192
        initrd /initrd-FC2.img

Here is the (edited) /boot directory:
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5824 Sep  5  2002 boot.b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          612 Sep  5  2002 chain.b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        42150 Sep  4  2002 config-2.4.18-14
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Oct 18 17:41 grub
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       131410 Oct  5 17:06 initrd-2.4.18-14.img
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2443013 Oct 12 21:17 initrd-FC2.img
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          473 Oct  2 18:30 kernel.h
drwx------    2 root     root        12288 Oct  2 18:26 lost+found
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Oct  5 17:06 module-info -> 
module-info-2.4.18-14
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        15436 Sep  4  2002 
module-info-2.4.18-14
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          640 Sep  5  2002 os2_d.b
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Oct  5 17:06 System.map -> 
System.map-2.4.18-14
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       507814 Sep  4  2002 System.map-2.4.18-14
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3236438 Sep  4  2002 vmlinux-2.4.18-14
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Oct  5 17:06 vmlinuz -> 
vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1125194 Sep  4  2002 vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1209805 Oct 12 21:17 vmlinuz-FC2

Phil Schaffner wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 06:45 -0700, Burnie West wrote:
>  
>
>>I am running Red Hat 8.0; downloaded the four FC2 iso's into one of 
>>several available
>>partitions.  Haven't yet been able to find instructions I can follow to 
>>boot FC2 from
>>there.
>>
>>Any pointers? Links?
>>    
>>
>
>Loopback mount the first ISO image:
>
># mount -ro loop <path>/FC2-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom
>
>Copy kernel and initrd to /boot:
>
># cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-FC2
># cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/initrd-FC2.img
>
>Add the something like the following to /boot/grub/grub.conf:
>
>title Fedora 2 Install
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-FC2 noapic pci=noacpi ramdisk_size=8192
>        initrd /initrd-FC2.img
>
>The root device spec above assumes /boot is the first partition on the
>first drive - YMMV.
>
>Reboot and choose "Fedora 2 Install" and "hard disk" install, specifying
>the path to the ISO image directory on the device you saved them to.
>Note that you cannot use the partition with the ISOs for the
>install/upgrade.  Recommend a fresh install on separate partition[s] or
>a new disk, keeping the RH8 installation for a dual-boot fallback, and
>as a source for configuration and user information.  Would also
>save/backup /home even if on a separate partition and start fresh on
>home directories.  A lot has changed in the user config files.
>
>Phil
>
>
>  
>