Hello suse-linux-e! I would like to have only one floppy disk for booting all Linuxes I have got on my computer. I am using Suse 9.2 for developing, but I have to test at full fart distributions. I don't like to change MBR on harddisks and FDD solution is better for me. Later I will make USB flash disk bootable, but booting for floppy is enougth. I have secondary slave disk which contains: hdd1: Linux swap hdd2: Suse 9.2 hdd3: Suse 10.0 hdd4: extended partition hdd5: Mandriva 2005 hdd6: Slax 5.0.6 hdd7: Fedora Core 4 Menu.lst contains these settings: --------------------------------- title SUSE LINUX 9.2 Devel (/dev/hdd2) kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd2 vga=792 selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/hdd1 desktop elevator=as showopts initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd title SUSE LINUX 10.0 (/dev/hdd3) root (hd1,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/hdd1 splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd title Mandriva 2005 kernel (hd1,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd5 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdd1 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd1,4)/boot/initrd.img title Slax kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd6 #initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd title Fedora 4 kernel (hd1,6)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd7 initrd (hd1,6)/boot/initrd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ First two Suse linuxes are booting without problems. Settings were copied from /boot/.../menu.lst Mandriva section was copied from /boot/grub/menu.lst from its partition, but it cannot start with this setting. I haven't found any solution how to start Slax or Fedora, these settings are only test. I cannot start Fedora, because there wasn't option for storing GRUB to floppy I have chossen "without boot loader". I made symlinks to "initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img" and "vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4" with names "vmlinuz" and "initrd" What am I doing wrong? Thanks for all replies. -- Best regards, TRoland http://www.rotursoft.sk http://exekutor.rotursoft.sk
** Reply to message from Roland Turcan <konf@rotursoft.sk> on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:54:31 +0100
I would like to have only one floppy disk for booting all Linuxes I have got on my computer. I am using Suse 9.2 for developing, but I have to test at full fart distributions. I don't like to change MBR on harddisks and FDD solution is better for me. Later I will make USB flash disk bootable, but booting for floppy is enougth.
Yast should do it for you. Boot into the distro that has the /boot/grub/menu.lst you see at boot up. Start Yast>>System>>Boot Loader. That screen has 2 tabs at the top; choose Boot Loader Installation. You should see Type=GRUB and a section, Boot Loader Location. Choose the radio button for Floppy Disk /dev/fd0. Click Finish with a blank, formatted floppy in /dev/fd0 and you should have what you want. Ed Harrison, Registered Linux User #199533 SuSE 10.0, Kernel 2.6.15 PolarBar Mailer 1.26
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