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Title: Boot Problem
Post by: hawk on September 13, 2004, 05:46:04 AM

hi...i was having dual boot of win XP pro and mandrake 10..l8r i wanted to install FC2 also. but after installing FC2 i am not able to boot in mandrake from GRUB. the partition is there but the opton is not available. any help? thx.

Title: Boot Problem
Post by: Ricky on September 13, 2004, 05:17:06 PM

can you post your partition table and your grub.conf ?

Title: Boot Problem
Post by: hawk on September 13, 2004, 08:17:41 PM

Here it is

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default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,8)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora  Core (2.6.5-1.358)
          root  (hd0,8)
          kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
           initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Other
           roornoverify (hd0,0)
            chainloader +1


Title: Boot Problem
Post by: Ricky on September 14, 2004, 07:47:02 PM

do you have fc2 and mandrake both ? or removed mandrake ?

well give output of fdisk -l  which is for partition table and tell use which partitino is root partition for which OS

Title: Boot Problem
Post by: hawk on September 15, 2004, 10:00:20 AM

No..i din delete mandrake. i want to have both FC2 and mandrake and windows. but after installing FC2 mandrake option has disappeard from boot screen.

and this fdisk.. i hv never used fdisk in linux. can u pliz be lil detailed about it. i mean i dont know where to run this and how. thx.

Title: Boot Problem
Post by: Ricky on September 16, 2004, 02:55:11 PM

well..that is ok but where is the output of fdisk -l ?

can you give me that so that I can give you possible grub config

Title: Boot Problem
Post by: sashijoseph on September 17, 2004, 01:38:12 AM

fdisk -l lists all the partitions.If you want to use fdisk for creating/deleting partitions etc then do a   fdisk /dev/hda   .You'll get a list of commands which you can use.
For solving your Mandrake problem plz give the output of fdisk -l like Ricky requested so that we may know which is the root part for Mandrake.
Thanks