Grub

[Codo]

Hello everbody,
I need to install another distro (kanotix 2007) in a partition hda5: my questions is: VLsoho is installed in hda1 with grub in MBR, this new installation have to install in the hda5 partition? thanks...

[metvas]

Hi:
Can you give us the current layout of your disk set up now. Also what you are using to partition.
Logical
Extended
Primary
thxs

[Codo]

hy,
this is the information:
 hda1 boot primary linux reiserfs
 hda5 logical linux ext3
 hda3 primary linux swap
ok?

[newt]

Aren't hda > 4 = extended partitions?  Which would mean hda5 is extended, not logical (unless I'm totally wrong - wouldn't be the first time )

I don't fully understand the question at hand.  Is the question: Can I install Kanotix on hda5?  If so, then I can't see any reason why not - just need to manually add the boot info to grub.

[metvas]

If you have the space sure? Sorry I assumed you had a dual boot with MS.

[Codo]

Guys, I obtain success when I go to VASM and restore the grub of vector, but now I can't to acess to kanotix because is an error 15...!?? The partitions is right. i think, i'm going to studied the manual for know what's going on!

[lagagnon]

Please post to this thread the output of the following commands run as root in a terminal (you do that by going into a terminal, run the commands below, highlight the text with your mouse, switch back to the browser and paste the text with your middle mouse button):

Code:

cat /boot/menu.lst
fdisk -l

[Codo]

hello guys,
I had success in this case of booting two distros (kanotix and vector) because I did go to VASM and restored a bootloader and chose grub, so I put the diretion of kanotix and well, works! my boot now is:
# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'vgrubconf'.  Wed 19 Sep 2007 05:04:50 PM BRT
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/hda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.hda.3605'.  You can restore it like this.
# dd if=mbr.hda.3605 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
timeout 60
default 0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/bitmap/boot.xpm
#color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux on (/dev/hda1)
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux on (/dev/hda5)
  root (hd0,4)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-10-kanotix root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=normal
  initrd      /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-10-kanotix
# Linux bootable partition config ends
title --- For help press 'c', type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title --- For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/grub.txt'
root (hd0)

  thanks and sorry