[Novalug] VDQ Grub (cleverness, wages of)

[Ed T. Toton III]

Thus spake Beartooth:

> 	What I now have is this :
>
> title CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL ro root=LABEL=/
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.img
> title CentOS-4 i386 (2.6.9-42.EL)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL ro root=LABEL=/
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2869.fc6)
>          root (hd1,0)
>          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/
>          initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.img
> [root at localhost btth]#
>
> 	What am I messing up here?? (I've tried hd0,4 and a few others as 
> FC root.)


My guess is the fact that you're trying to pass both OS's a "label" based 
name for the partition to use as the root filesystem. If you have more 
than one labeled as "/", chances are both OSes will only see the first 
one. In this instance I'd change the labels (with e2label) and update grub 
and the fstabs in both to match, or otherwise go with the raw device names 
for the partitions in all those places.

It looks like CentOS is on /dev/hda1 and FC is on /dev/hdb1. Might be best 
to call them by those names.



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