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Offline hawk

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« 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.

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« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2004, 05:17:06 PM »
can you post your partition table and your grub.conf ?

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« Reply #2 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

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« Reply #3 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

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« Reply #4 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.

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« Reply #5 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

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« Reply #6 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