Re: RH 6.0 & other Linux, Multi-boot

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:44:55PM -0500, Technoslick wrote:
> Than I have something else wrong. 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1'
> doesn't work. I get the error message, as stated before.
>
> I removed '/mnt/hdb1'. Remade it. Tried the mount again. Still no joy. Same
> error message.

Hmm.  That's one thing I don't like about error messages from mount.
They are about as informative as saying, "It didn't work".

I wouldn't hurt to try doing a filesystem check of /dev/hdb1 from TL3:

 e2fsck -y /dev/hdb1

Then try the mount again.

> BTW, the reason for adding every switch was because I couldn't see where it
> explained very clearly what the letters meant. Just being a monkey about
> it...mimicking what I saw.

Sorry.  I should have mentioned the "man" (manual) pages.  Most
commands are documented and can be accessed using, in this case, "man
mount".  They seem to be migrating to "info" pages, but are accessed
similarly: "info mount".

> Ready to give up on me? I'm sure close... <sigh>

Nah.

> T

We can try it from RH6's perspective.  Boot RH6 from floppy.  Then
make a mount point for TL3's root, call it

 mkdir /mnt/tl3

Then, try mounting to it:

 mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/tl3

If that works, add this stanza to RH6's lilo.conf:

image=/mnt/tl3/boot/vmlinuz
          label=turbolinux
          read-only
          root=/dev/hda2

Then run "lilo".  Note: order is important.  The first stanza is the
default boot.  So if you want TL3 to boot by default, put the above
stanza before the existing stanza that begins, "image=....".  "man
lilo.conf" for more information.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
Linux: because I want to get there today.  Without rebooting.