Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

[Donn Washburn <n5xwb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 19:34, Donn Washburn wrote:
>
> > Hey Group;
> >
> > A Linux friend has a 3 partition WinXP=hda1, /boot=hda2, Xandros=hda5 
> > and SuSE 9.2=hda6. Each hda5 and hda6 are 30Gigs with /boot about 500 
> > meg. (plus a swap=hda3 and /hda7 is spare)
> >
> > The problem is I have tried about every combination of hd#,# and can not 
> > get Xandros to boot with grub from SuSE9.2
> >
> > Windows and SuSE9.2 boot just fine.  However, Xandros which has its 
> > /boot on /dev/hda5 fails to boot.
> >
> > Has anyone seen a similar problem?
> >
> > menu.lst is on SuSE9.2=hda6/boot/grub.
> Which distro does /boot belong to? It can't belong to Xandros and SuSE
> and work.
The boot partition that has grub and MBR menu.lst is SuSE 9.2.
Xandros has it's own /dev/hda5/boot/kernel stuff.  All grub needs
to do is point to that partition.  I have even tried moving the
Xandros /boot files (names of kernel stuff is different) and
there is not a initrd in Xandros (as I remember).

Somehow that may even be the problem.

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