RE: Weird looking partition table

[Mark Knecht <markknecht attbi com>]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 14:19, Albert DE WINT wrote:

> Over here it's about 23.20. 
> 
> Take your time.  I don't need it urgently, on the contrary.
> I don't miss any Mandrake features, since I got them all in RED HAT 9.
> 
> One of the nasty things in Mandrake 9 was KDE's file browser crashing
> all the time.  I have the same experience in RH9 though.
> I'd like to start another thread on that, but don't want to bother this
> list.
> 
> Need some sleep now
> 
> Have a nice day
> 
> Albert


Albert,
   OK, so here's the way I do it in all it's bloody glory. Turns out
right now my Mandrake distribution isn't included in my Redhat grub
file. I use System Commander 7, so I can boot directly into that
distribution using SC7. Mandrake is on /dev/hda5. It is marked as
bootable.

   SC7 allows me to boot into Redhat's grub, and from there I can choose
Redhat (/dev/hda8) or Gentoo (/dev/hda9+hda10) , so this example shows
two distributions about 5 kernels + DOS. (1 RH and 4 Gentoo - I keep SC7
in the DOS partition and run Norton Ghost from there.

NOTE: - Redhat's default install (above 8GB) places /boot in the root
partition. (Or I did...) Gentoo's installation makes a separate /boot
partition (hda9) and the root partition. (hda10)

One thing I like about Gentoo is that it mounts /boot, boots the system,
then automatically unmounts /boot. This way, you could erase the whole
system and still boot since /boot isn't mounted when you are running. It
does require that yo mount /boot when you build a new kernel, but that's
OK.

   Anyway, I hope this helps. I really think all the information is down
there if you can manage to follow your way through it.

   Good luck. Ask questions. I'll be around over the weekend.

Cheers,
Mark



Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1        20    160618+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda2   *        21      9729  77987542+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5   *        21       708   5526328+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           709       868   1285168+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7          9475      9729   2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda8   *       869      1633   6144831   83  Linux
/dev/hda9          1634      1646    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda10         1647      2376   5863693+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order


Gentoo fstab:

# <fs> <mountpoint>  <type>  <opts>   <dump/pass>

/dev/hda9   /boot       ext3      noauto,noatime    1 1
/dev/hda10  /           ext3      noatime           0 0
/dev/hda6   none        swap      sw                0 0
/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660   noauto,user,ro    0 0
proc        /proc       proc      defaults          0 0
/dev/hda7   /mnt/data   ext2      auto,user,exec    0 0
tmpfs       /dev/shm    tmpfs     defaults          0 0



Mandrake / (root) mounted under Gentoo:

Wizard mnt # mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 /mnt/other
Wizard mnt # cd other/
Wizard other # ls
bin  boot  dev  etc  halt  home  initrd  lib  mark  mnt  opt  proc 
root  sbin  tmp  usr  var
Wizard other # 



Mandrake fstab:

/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0
0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 0 0



Redhat / (root) mounted under Gentoo:

Wizard root # mount -t ext3 /dev/hda8 /mnt/other
Wizard root # cd /mnt/other
Wizard other # ls
bin  boot  dev  etc  halt  home  initrd  lib  lost+found  mark  misc 
mnt  opt  proc  root  sbin  tmp  usr  var
Wizard other # 



Redhat fstab:


Wizard other # more etc/fstab
LABEL=/     /          ext3    defaults        1 1
none        /dev/pts   devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none        /proc      proc    defaults        0 0
none        /dev/shm   tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda6   swap       swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0    /mnt/floppy  auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda7   /home      ext2    defaults        0 0


Redhat grub.conf:


Wizard grub # pwd
/mnt/other/boot/grub

Wizard grub # ls
device.map     fat_stage1_5  grub.conf     menu.lst       
reiserfs_stage1_5  stage1  vstafs_stage1_5
e2fs_stage1_5  ffs_stage1_5  jfs_stage1_5  minix_stage1_5 
splash.xpm.gz      stage2  xfs_stage1_5


Wizard grub # more grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,7)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda8
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda8
default=4
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
        root (hd0,7)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title Gentoo Linux (2.4.21)
        root (hd0,8)
        kernel (hd0,8)/boot/bzImage ro root=/dev/hda10
title Gentoo Linux DRITEST
        root (hd0,8)
        kernel (hd0,8)/boot/bzImage_DRITEST ro root=/dev/hda10
title Gentoo Linux apmDRITEST
        root (hd0,8)
        kernel (hd0,8)/boot/bzImage_apmDRITEST ro root=/dev/hda10
title Gentoo Linux apmDRITESTalsa
        root (hd0,8)
        kernel (hd0,8)/boot/bzImage_apmDRITEST2 ro root=/dev/hda10
title DOS
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1
Wizard grub #