Boot to FC4

[Tim]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:50 +0700, Rapid Sun wrote:
> I have installed FC 4 as dual boot with XP.
> 
> My / partition is /dev/hda3 and swap partition is /dev/hda4 .
> 
> I have cleared the MBR with command: fdisk /mbr

Accidentally or on purpose?  And to what aim?

> I can boot to Redhat 9 with this command: vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3
> 
> But with FC4, I can’t use this command.  

Looking at some GRUB entries for Fedora Core 4 and Red Hat 9.0 Linux, on
different PCs around here, they seem to use the same syntax (see some
examples below).  What worked for one ought to work for the other in a
similar fashion.

title Fedora Core (2.6.14-1.1637_FC4)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda7 acpi=force
        initrd /initrd-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4.img

title Fedora Core 4 (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/1
        initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img

title Red Hat 9.0 Linux (2.4.20-31.9)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-31.9 ro root=/dev/hdb7 hdc=ide-scsi
        initrd /initrd-2.4.20-31.9.img


> How can I boot into FC4?

See the other message about using a GRUB boot disk.  But you've not made
things exactly clear about what you're trying.  There's a plethora of
ways you could manage this:

You always want to boot from a floppy?
You just need to do that to fix things up?
Would you want to set up a bootloader on the hard disk?
Would you want to do that to use the XP bootloader or GRUB?

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