unable to see fedora 7

[linuxpuneet]

hello,

i have RHEL 5 , fedora 7 and xp,but in the boot menu only RHEL and xp comes,how can i locate fedora and boot it.


regards
puneet vyas

[Mitesh Singh Jat]

Hi Puneet,

You are not able to see the Fedora in GRUB menu,
because its entry is not present in /boot/grub/menu.lst
file in Root partition of RHEL. (I am hoping that you have
installed RHEL after Fedora).

Solution:
(1) Boot in RHEL
(2) $ sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
(3) Add following lines in above file
title Fedora 7
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-kernel-version root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-kernel-version
quiet

Note: You have to give correct values according to your system
configuration.
For example:
(1) root
root (hd0,1) /* Fedora's root partition is in /dev/sda2 */
root (hd0,2) /* Fedora's root partition is in /dev/sda3 */
....
you can check where your fedora root is: Just
mount all unmounted partition, and look vmlinuz-...
boot/ directory in mount directory. If you find
vmlinuz-*fc7* then this is the root partition of Fedora 7.
....
(2) kernel
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-(kernel-version)
....
(kernel-version) what you have found just now.
....
(3)
initrd /boot/initrd.img-(kernel-version)
....
(kernel-version) what you have found just now.
....

I hope that this will solve your problem.

Regards,
Mitesh Singh Jat

[linuxpuneet]

thanks very much for finding your precious time