Mounting Issues with mega-boot system

[westwarrior]

Ive been on the forums about my multi-boot system for a while, still having a few problems..so here goes, i had Suse10.2 installed, but i only had problems, and so today i partioned my hard drive to look a little like this

4 20GB ext3 partions (for linuxs)
900MB SWAP
the rest is Windows XP

i got dual boot going with Ubuntu, and i found it convenient that it showed all of my partions (/dev/sda6-9) on my desktop, so next i install CentOS on the next partion, with hopes of mounting the Ubuntu partion and copying the /boot/grub/menu.lst entries into the new GRUB, but i cant figure out just how to mount the Ubuntu partion

i enter the terminal as root, and run "mount /dev/sda6" and it tells me that i dont have permission....what do i do next? have i messed up? do i need to mess with anything in /etc/fstab? also, Windows XP will boot, but Ubuntu wont...is that because /dev/sda6 hasnt been mounted?

[devils casper]

you must have 'root' privileges to mount Ubuntu partition. create mount point first.

su -
mkdir /media/ubuntu
mount -t   ext3  /dev/sda6  /media/ubuntu

check Ubuntu's menu.lst file in /media/ubuntu/boot/grub folder.
no need to add an entry for Ubuntu in /etc/fstab file unless you want to edit/share Ubuntu's file in CentOS all the time.





Casper

[westwarrior]

Thanks!

that was really easy, and quick..i have Quad boot running...but i decided to add Slackware to the mix as well....and i just have a few questions

since Slackware uses LILO, is there anyway to add that into GRUB? i chose not to install LILO to MBR when prompted, and Slackware didnt boot after i installed it, the GRUB menu did, which makes sense, but what should i do to make it available in GRUB when i start my computer?

[devils casper]

same way... mount slackware partition and note down name of kernel ( vmlinuz.xxx ) and initrd file. add an entry for Slackware in GRUB file.

title Slackware
        root( hdx,x )
        kernel /kernel file name ro root=/dev/hdxx splash
	initrd /initrd file name

replace x,x with correct partition numbers.






Casper

[westwarrior]

Ok, i got Slackware added to GRUB, and booting right...my only curiosity, is that when i load Fedora, it has a Fedora Theme, when i load Ubuntu, an Ubuntu theme, and when i load CentOS, it has its own theme....how come Slackware has a KDE theme? thats really strange....i really like this kinda theme that i found when i was lookin through image searches

http://mammouth.tuxfamily.org/slackware/desktop.jpg

[devils casper]

how come Slackware has a KDE theme? thats really strange....i really like this kinda theme that i found when i was lookin through image searches

its because Slackware uses KDE theme by default. you can change splash image easily. extract /boot/splash file, replace its image and zip it again.






Casper