Triboot promblems Suse 10.2 FC7 & XP

[tellie1]

Im trying to try boot using Suse grub, Suse and xp work. The fedora 7 install is still there but I cant find the fc7 kernel. I installed XP than fedora than suse. I didnt install fedora 7 with volgroups. I just used a /boot and / directories. In the boot dir I can look in I only find the suse kernel -suse xen kernel and cant find the FC7 kernel or the fc7 xen kernel.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

check in boot folder under / (root) of Fedora. check the contents of Fedora's /etc/fstab file too.

[tellie1]

how can i get to root of fedora? I cant seem to tell the 2 OS's apart.

[devils casper]

you have to mount Fedora's / partition in SuSe. post the output of fdisk -l and df -h commands. you must have root privileges to execute fdisk command.

[tellie1]

Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 1276 1288 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1289 3838 20482875 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 3839 16893 104864287+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3839 4100 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 4101 6711 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 6712 16893 81786883+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 0 MB, 327680 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
kickassbox:/ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 20G 8.3G 11G 45% /
udev 2.0G 128K 2.0G 1% /dev
/dev/sda7 77G 197M 73G 1% /home
/dev/sda1 9.8G 6.3G 3.6G 65% /windows/C

[devils casper]

mount sda2 and sda3 partitions. these probably /boot and / partitions of Fedora.

cd /media
mkdir sda2 sda3
mount -t ext3  /dev/sda2  /media/sda2
mount -t ext3  /dev/sda3  /media/sda3

check in /media/sda2 and sda3 folders. post the contents of /etc/fstab file in sda2/sda3 and check if there is any grub.conf file in /boot/grub folder of sda2/3.

[tellie1]

cant find a fstab file anywhere in those 2 dir but did find the kernels I think. They are labeled vmlinuz right? also there is a grub config in sda 2

[devils casper]

copy first title block ( title, root, kernel and initrd lines ) from grub.conf file and paste in /boot/grub/menu.lst file of SuSe.

cant find a fstab file anywhere in those 2 dir but did find the kernels I think. They are labeled vmlinuz right?

/etc/fstab file must be in /sda3. Did you check in /media/sda3/etc folder? and yes, vmlinuz is the kernel.

[tellie1]

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Copied everything to the menu list file. will the partions stay mounted?

[tellie1]

Seems to work well. Ur the man. would be to much to ask to help trouble shoot a video driver issue with fc7?