On Friday 25 Jul 2003 9:36 am, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
I have 2 hdd's hda and hdb. I have RH 9 on hda2 w/ grub as bootloader. I then installed slackware 9 on hdb2 (which previously had RH 8.) hdb3 also has RH 8. Slackware is on reiserfs. I have installed lilo of slackware on boot sector of / (hdb2) as I did not make a seperate boot partition.
I have copied the vmlinuz of slack to /boot of RH 9 and have made the entries in grub.conf as below:
default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux 9 (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/12 hdd=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img title Slackware 9 (2.4.20) root (hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20 ro hdd=ide-scsi title DOS rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
Now, when I try to boot into slackware from grub, it boots into RH 8 *even though it is pointing to the correct partition as grub recognises the reiserfs partition type*.
Sounds quite messy, why dont you get a bookfloppy like tomsrtbt, or boot into whatever linux is booting, and install lilo into mbr from scratch, that would be faster for me to do than trying to make sense of your situation.
BTW slackware dont have any initrd section? And BTW I usually advice lilo over grub, as lilo needs to be installed everytime lilo.conf change is to take effect, and lilo will crib if there is problem, whereas all the grub.conf problem is detected at boottime.