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suicideducky Apprentice
Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 208
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: [solved]converting my gentoo-box to dual boot with archlinux |
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ok well i have gentoo linux installed on this system now, heres my partitioning layout (simple and boring, i know)
hda1 boot
hda2 swap
hda3 gentoo
and ive just installed arch linux in partition hda4
hda4 archlinux
but archlinux refers to them as sda(1-4) and gentoo refers to them as hda(1-4) ?!? they cant be both sata and ide...
the problem lies that my boot partition holds the gentoo version of grub, i dont know how else to put it, and also the kernel image and initramfs
but id like it to be able to dual boot into arch, adding the appropriate arch entry into my menu.lst file doesnt seem to do it, well kinda
i added the appropriate lines into my menu.lst two entries, one for archlinux, and archlinux fallback, the only difference is the kernel image
but the 1st fails to mount sda4 whereas the 2nd one does it just fine?!?
but thats a problem for the arch community XD
basically what i want to do it move the kernel image and all the files from sda1 to sda3/boot but id still like grub itself to remain in my sda1
reasons for this? im more of a distro jumper TBH, ive stuck with gentoo for just under a year abouts but that urge to muck around with distros is coming back, idealy what id like my HDD to eventually be is the following
hda1 boot
hda2 swap
hda3 gentoo
hda4 extended
hda5 archlinux
hda6 LFS
in the end id like to be able to do whatever with each partition without destroying my bootloader but i also dont want to do much tinkering with the sda1 partition other than with menu.lst
any suggestions/help would be much apprechiated
thanks again, Ducky
SOLUTION:
changed (hd0,0) to (hd0,2) and then moved the system map, kernel image and initramfs files to my boot dir
and for the arch prob i just did a mkinitcpio -k 2.6.22-arch -g /boot/kernel26.img
thanks again all, ducky
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suicideducky Apprentice
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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my current grub.conf
Code: | default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#colour light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.22-r2
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8912 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev vga=791 splash=silent
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r2
title=Arch Linux
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda4 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
title=Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda4 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
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how would i make it look in /sda3/boot for the kernel image and initramfs?!? |
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Coelacanth Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 83
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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just change
root (hd0,0)
to
root (hd0,2)
in the Gentoo entry |
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suicideducky Apprentice
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:05 am Post subject: |
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Coelacanth wrote: | just change
root (hd0,0)
to
root (hd0,2)
in the Gentoo entry |
oh tah XD
but then do i only need to grab out the kernel and initramfs image and the rest i presume is grub and a splash image?!? |
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Coelacanth Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 83
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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suicideducky wrote: | Coelacanth wrote: | just change
root (hd0,0)
to
root (hd0,2)
in the Gentoo entry |
oh tah XD
but then do i only need to grab out the kernel and initramfs image and the rest i presume is grub and a splash image?!? |
That's right. All you need to move is the kernel and the initrd. |
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