Setup Mandrake 10.1 boot loader for Fedora

[mister2]

I'm very new to Linux, i usually use os x but i recently had the chance to get a slightly used pc for cheap. I put windows 98 on a separate partition, and another smaller one for storage. Than i installed mandrake 10.1 which also installed a boot loader program so i can have a choice at start up. But than i installed Fedora 5.0 and it installed its own boot loader, but it didnt show mandrake or windows, so i used the mandrake one, but i cant get back into fedora.

Ok as you can see i dont know many of the terms, but i think that i need to know the "image" and "root" and "append" in order to get mandrake's boot loader to work. (which i think is called drakboot)

Under mandrake in the boot loader it lists /boot/vmlinuz as the image, /dev/hda6 as the root, and devfs=nomount acpi=ht......... as the append

I think the root for fedora is /dev/hda3 but im not sure what the others are or if there is more that i would need to do.

Thanks for any help you can give

[devils casper]

you can find all the details in Fedora's grub.conf file. mount 'root' partition of Fedora and check /boot/grub/grub.conf file. copy title, kernel and initrd lines.



casper

[mister2]

ok.....

How do i mount the root partition of Fedora?

and how do i check /boot/grub/grub.conf file?

[devils casper]

boot up mandrake and mount Fedora's /root partition using mount command.




casper

[mister2]

Ok, so i entered this:

$ mount /dev/hda3

and got this:

mount: can't find /dev/hda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

is there some thing im missing?

i also tried hda1,2,3,4, and 5 + 6 said they were already mounted

[devils casper]

$ mount /dev/hda3

you are not executing 'mount' command correctly. check its manual.
man mount

log in as root and execute these command.

fdisk -l   ( ....its small 'L' )
df -h

post the output here........



casper

[mister2]

thanks for all your help..

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1276 10243768+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1276 11834 84812805 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 11835 11847 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 11848 24321 100197405 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda5 1276 1595 2562808+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 1596 11834 82244736 83 Linux



is that two more partitions than i thought i had?

and..

[root@localhost root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 78G 1.4G 72G 2% /
/dev/hda1 9.8G 435M 9.4G 5% /mnt/win_c
/dev/hda5 2.5G 373M 2.1G 15% /mnt/win_d

thanx again

[devils casper]

create a mount point and mount partition of fedora.

mkdir /mnt/fedora
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda4 /mnt/fedora

copy grub.conf on Desktop.

cp /mnt/fedora/boot/grub/grub.conf ~/Desktop

copy title, kernel and initrd lines from grub.conf file and paste in Mandrake's boot loader configuration file.




casper

[mister2]

[root@localhost root]# mkdir /mnt/fedora
[root@localhost root]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda4 /mnt/fedora
mount: /dev/hda4 already mounted or /mnt/fedora busy

[root@localhost root]# cp /mnt/fedora/boot/grub/grub.conf ~/Desktop
cp: cannot stat `/mnt/fedora/boot/grub/grub.conf': No such file or directory


sorry, i have no idea what to do, does this mean its not hda4?

[devils casper]

thats strange ! i think FC5 partition is /dev/hda4.
well ! post the contents of /etc/fstab file.





casper