install ES3 dual-boot onto Fedora2 doesn't get grub.conf right

[Rick Stevens]

Stuart Sears wrote:
> On Friday 05 Nov 2004 22:24, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>David Morgan wrote:
>>Could you reverse the process (install ES first, then FC) to see if the
>>Fedora version of anaconda is smarter and recognizes ES as a Linux
>>implementation?
> 
> trust me, it doesn't. (at least not in my experience)

Lovely.  Another case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand
is doing.  Sheesh!

> My laptop currently dual boots ES and FC2 - installed in that order. The 
> easiest way for me to handle this (especially as FC3 or poss RHEL4 beta will 
> replace FC2 shortly) was to install the FC2 bootloader to FCs / fs and use a 
> chainloader line in the ES grub.conf file.
> so it now looks a bit like this:
> title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-20.EL)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi vga=791
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.21-20.EL.img
> title Fedora Core (bootloader)
>         root (hd0,6)
>         chainloader +1
> but then my FC2 install is all on one / filesystem...

Now that's ugly.  Ah well.

>>If the FC anaconda handles it properly, then I'd file a bugzilla report
>>with Red Hat so that they use the Fedora anaconda in the next release of
>>ES/AS/EL/WS.
> 
> may be worth doing - there are alot of bugs relating to anaconda in bugzilla 
> atm, but none that seem to refer to this issue.

I agree.  You would think that it could recognize other Linuxen on
the system, though, wouldn't you?
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