right, got kubuntu running fine, want to run mandy alongside,
my config[ul][li]hda1, kubuntu /, 8Gb[]hda2 /home 12Gb[]hda3, mandy /, 8Gb[/ul] both kubuntu and mandy will share /home & swap (configured while installing kubuntu, and used esisting /home & swap during mandy install)
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i installed mandy (including bootloader, MBR) but kubuntu (grub) booted, now how do i access mandy ?
tried looking on net, for edit kubuntu bootloader, or is there a better bootloader or another way to achive a dual boot
First find the name of your kernel, initrd image on the /boot directory of your mandriva installation. It will probably be something like linux-2.6.12-16mdk and initrd.img-2.6.12-16mdk etc etc. Just find the files that match in the versions and note their exact names down.
If you’re using the GRUB bootloader, you need to edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file on your Kubuntu partition. Open it as root, and search for the bit of the file where the actual menu entries are (lines not beginning with #).
Then add something liketitle Mandriva 2006
root (hd0,2) (its hd0,2 because grub starts with 0, so hda1 is hd0,0, and hda2 is hd0,1 etc etc)
kernel /boot/kernel-name-here
initrd /boot/initrd-name-here
Just a warning, you will likely have problems with Mandy and Kubuntu sharing the same /home, since there will be different versions of some of the same programs on each distro, and those user-specific settings are kept in your /home.
hi guys, just wondering, is there a way of mount mandriva’s /, in kubuntu ? (in order to discover the name of the kernel & initrd image of the mandriva install) tried editing /boot/grub/menu.lst (as you’ll see on attachments, but cant find kernel & initrd of mandy)
Yes you can mount Mandy’s root partition in Kubuntu, but I don’t really see much point.
Basically you would have to create an empty folder somewhere in Kubuntu, then mount the Mandriva root partition into that. So you might choose something like /mandriva or /home/donkey/mandriva etc
BTW, I’ve found Kubuntu’s disk management to be awful! The KDE mounter is pretty poor so I ended up editing the FSTAB manually. Oh and Kubuntu has no partitioning tools whatsoever. They really need to sort this out.
Its very easy to do, as root make a new directory like /mnt/mandy
then do this:mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/mandy
cd /mnt/mandy/boot/
ls -l
You should see a symlink called vmlinuz which will point to the default mandriva kernel. ls -l will give you detailed file listings, and from there you can find which file vmlinuz points to.
sorry to act thick, but i’m doing my British Rail impresion, i’m getting there (that did used to be BR’s motto)
but just to be sure, check attachments, i just need to add highlighted text to fstab (and do some other crap)
another prob on booting mandy, boot menu - no problem now (except /dev/hda7 win booting) about 3 screens full of text pass then mandy freezes - kernel panic,
i think it could be the fact that /dev/hda1 is ext3 & /dev/hda3 /home is ext2 or is that ok, if not how do i change type of /dev/hda1 to ext2
It means it cannot find the kernel image where it expects to find it, so it can’t go any further. init= explicitly tells the bootloader which kernel image to load.
