RE: Weird looking partition table

["Mark Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>]

>
> The fully-automated installers do it all "behind your back".
> Then the final result comes as a surprise for the newbie.

I understand. I'm just a newbie + 1. (For claibration, Rick = newbie + 1000)
;-)


> I'm in I have
> > access to all my files. (No different than mounting a Windows FAT drive
> > under /mnt/windows for all three distributions.
>
> I understand the point.  But when it comes to typing the actual
> commands, I'm just hopeless.

As root in Redhat:

mkdir /mnt/Mandrake

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt/Mandrake

(Adjust for names and file system type. After it works you can add it to
fstab with a noauto option to make it easier in the future.)

>
> > > > works would describe hda6 as (0,5).
> > >
> >
> I added in GRUB:
>
> 	title Mandrake 9.0
> 		rootnoverify (hd0.5)

That was a comma, not a period in my example.....


> 		chainloader +1
>
> booting it says:
>
> 	Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
> 	press any key to continue
>
> Then I tried something like the RED HAT title, (just a wild guess),
> obviously that did not run neither. :-)
>
> title Mandrake 9.0
>         root (hd0,5)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.19-16 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.19-16.img

OK, I notice (from memory - I haven't save this whole thread) another
problem. If I remember, maybe hda6 is not currently bootable? It should have
an asterisk near it's name in fdisk. Does it? If not, you cannot boot it
until you mark it as bootable, I believe. I'd like some help from Bob or
Rick, or some other knowledgeable soul, before we make this change.

Basically, EVERY partition that holds a 'kernel image' (bzImage file) needs
to be a bootable partition, I think.