[hesham emad]

I have windows XP and suse 10.2 and the bootloader appears at the startup giving me the 2 choices and every thing is fine then I wanted to install fedora core 6, I used a partitioner and left about 15GB free space on my second hard disk and during installation of fedora, I asked it to install in the free partition and after installation is complete and the PC rebooted the boot loader also shows suse and windows xp, I entered fedora core 6 cd1 again and made an update and tried all choices in hope that any will work but the same, I entered to the bootloader in suse trying to add fedora to it but I do not know what to do, now I have hdb8 (linux swap of ferdora), hdb9 (linux native of fedora), hdb10(lvm), so what should I do and sorry if there is a necessary information I hadn't provided as I'm new to linux in general either suse or fedora
Thanks in advance

[devils casper]

which Boot Loader are you using right now? post the output of 'fdisk -l' command too.

[hesham emad]

I'm using GNU Grub v0.97
and here is the output of fdisk -l

linux-Hesham:/home/hesham # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 383 3076416 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 384 4865 36001665 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 384 1276 7172991 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 1277 3061 14337981 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 3062 4865 14490598+ b W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 6374 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 6375 12748 51199155 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb3 12749 19457 53890042+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 12749 12812 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb6 12813 15423 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/hdb7 15440 17545 16916413+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb8 17546 17610 522081 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb9 * 15424 15436 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb10 17611 19457 14835996 8e Linux LVM

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/dm-0: 14.5 GB, 14596177920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1774 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 536 MB, 536870912 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 65 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
linux-Hesham:/home/hesham #

[devils casper]

boot up SuSe and mount /dev/hdb9 partition. post the contents of /hdb9/grub/grub.conf file.

[hesham emad]

I mounted hdb9 in /fedora and when I opened the grub configuration of fedora I found the configuration for fedora is as the following

default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
root (hd1,
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img

so I mounted
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 in /fedoraLVM0
and /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 in /fedoraLVM1

and added the following configuration to grub of suse

title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
rootnoverify (hd1,
kernel /fedora/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/fedoraLVM0/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /fedora/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img

and already these files exists in these paths but after booting the grub gives me
error 15 : file not found and when I edited the grub in the command line while booting
I wrote Kernel / (then pressed tab) and it found /fedora but when I enter to /fedora and pressed tab it finds nothing although when I enter /boot it founds all the files including vmlinuz of suse, so what should I do?
I tried also to use the bootloader of suse and identified the paths of vmlinuz and initrd of fedora but also it fails
any advice please
Thanks in advance

[devils casper]

I tried also to use the bootloader of suse and identified the paths of vmlinuz and initrd of fedora but also it fails

which distro's boot loader are you using right now? which GRUB Menu appears at startup by default? SuSe or Fedora?

[hesham emad]

the bootloader of suse is that which is appearing, I hadn't accessed the fedora even once

[devils casper]

okk !
log in as root and open menu.lst file. add these lines

title Fedora Core
root (hd1,8 )
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img

save file and reboot.

[hesham emad]

I did but it hadn't succeded, when I enter to the command line of the grub during booting, and write (hd1, then press tab, it gives me options 0,1,4,5,6 where 4 is the swap of the suse, 5 is / of suse(linux native), 6 is /home of suse (linux native)
It does not see the rest and that's why when I write root (hd1,8 ) it gives partiotion table corrupted and when writing rootnoverify to pass that step it gives file not found as if fedora partiotions are not mounted in their directories (/fedora, /fedoraLVM0, /fedoraLVM1)
Thanks man for your continuos help

[devils casper]

did you add an entry for second disk in /boot/grub/device.map file of SuSe?