Dual or triple booting

[jackgray]

Hi all,
Okay let me get right to this. For portability reasons I have Windows installed on my first hard drive /dev/hda or (hd0,0). On my second hard disk I have Solaris installed /dev/hdb or (hd1,0). On my third drive is my Gentoo installation or /dev/hdc also known as (hd2,0). Now I have come across a problem I cannot get my gentoo installation to boot so my assumption is that I have improperly configured grub. I get the grub boot screen but when I attempt to boot gentoo it is not found. I tried to do a search but the server must be down so any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Jack

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[Pete_Keller]

jackgray,

Pleas post your grub.conf, /etc/fstab files and the output of fdisk -l /dev/hdc

Thanks
Pete
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[Jefklak]

You should make the windows (or another) partition bootable ONLY.
Install grub on the bootable partition and it should work.
If grub works, all other OSes but linux not, maybe you forgot to do something when installing, like copying the kernel to the correct dir and making 3 partitions(root,boot,swap)?

I dont know if this still is a problem, but if you are using more than 4 partitons you'll need an "extended" partiton to, well lets say "enlarge" the partition table because some boot loaders cant handle that much partitons. I tought Lilo is such one, but Im not sure about grub.

[jackgray]

Hello all,
I jsut wanted to let everyone know that I managed to figure out what I did wrong although I had to hmm.. hmm.. scam a little. I will post all of the information later as this my help someone in the future. My workaround was to go through the install process of libranet and the use the menu.lst that was generated to get grub properly installed. Now I am up and running gentoo and loving it.
Until...
J
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[jackgray]

Hi,
Here is the output of my ls -l /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc: 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/hdc1 * 1 9635 77393106 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 9636 9697 498015 82 Linux Swap
/dev/hdc3 9698 9729 257040 83 Linux

Here is the output of my fstab

/dev/hdc3 /boot /ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hdc1 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hdc2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0

none /proc proc default 0 0

none /dev/shm tmpfs default 0 0



Here is the output of my grub.conf

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd2,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo 1.4
root (hd2,2)
kernel (hd2,2)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hdc1
initrd (hd2,2)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r6

title=Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive

chainloader +1

title=Solaris
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

So if I remember correctly I did
I think this first line was where I made the earlier mistake thinking my / directory.
grub> root (hd2,2)
grub> setup (hd2,2)
grub> quit

make sure that you also do a
ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst

By the way, just to quell the corrections. I know /boot should (by gentoo's directions) have been on the first part of my drive, but libranet would not allow me to set it up that way. I chose their defaults and this is how I got it set up. Doing it agian I would put /boot on the first 1024 and make changes to my grub accordingly.
Jack
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