Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 32.97.110.142]
on February 25, 2008 07:49 PM
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Hi all, i need your expertise on the following issue.
I have 2 x 160gig hard disks on my PC. I created a 60gig partition on first hard disk and installed Windows 2003 Server first. Thing goes well.
I would like to install the following Linux OSs on the rest of the hard disks:
RedHat Linux 4 Update 5
RedHat Linux 5 Update 1
Suse Linux 10.3
I have one the above installs in the order I listed. After I rebooted the machine, I am now getting a Suse Linux boot loader which I expected. Then I manually updated the /boot/grub/menu.lst file on Suse partition to add the other Redhat partitions. I was able to add the Redhat Linux 4 Update 5 successful as the kernel files are still existed in the RH 4 partition. However, when I tried to add RH 5 partition, it seems to missing all its kernel files in /boot directory for RH 5. Now, I could only able to boot Windows, RH 4 and Suse Linux. Which is not that bad. But I would still love to get my RH 5 boot up from Suse Linux boot loader.
I think I have done something wrong during the Suse Linux installation which Suse Linux might have wiped out the RH 5 /boot filesystem somehow.
My question are:
What is the best way to install this type of multiple Linux OSs? Does it support?
If I follow the instructions above not having to install the boot loader for my next subsequence Linux install, would this work for me?
Is it best way to have each OS to own their own /boot filesystem so that it does not override each other during the installation?
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated....
A side question. Let say I have Windows, RH 4 and RH 5 installed and boot loader is working fine. When I make any partition modification from Computer Management in Windows OS, would it mess up the GRUP boot loader? I have experienced this that this has happened to me multiple times. After I deleted a NTFS partion from Windows OS, rebooted the machine will cause the boot loader failing to load and I get a GRUB> prompt. This drive me nuts. I could not find a way to fix it until I do a Linux rescue install again.
Any good suggestion on this one as well to avoid getting a GRUB> prompt?
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 32.97.110.142] on February 25, 2008 07:49 PM====================
Hi all, i need your expertise on the following issue.
I have 2 x 160gig hard disks on my PC. I created a 60gig partition on first hard disk and installed Windows 2003 Server first. Thing goes well.
I would like to install the following Linux OSs on the rest of the hard disks:
RedHat Linux 4 Update 5
RedHat Linux 5 Update 1
Suse Linux 10.3
I have one the above installs in the order I listed. After I rebooted the machine, I am now getting a Suse Linux boot loader which I expected. Then I manually updated the /boot/grub/menu.lst file on Suse partition to add the other Redhat partitions. I was able to add the Redhat Linux 4 Update 5 successful as the kernel files are still existed in the RH 4 partition. However, when I tried to add RH 5 partition, it seems to missing all its kernel files in /boot directory for RH 5. Now, I could only able to boot Windows, RH 4 and Suse Linux. Which is not that bad. But I would still love to get my RH 5 boot up from Suse Linux boot loader.
I think I have done something wrong during the Suse Linux installation which Suse Linux might have wiped out the RH 5 /boot filesystem somehow.
My question are:
What is the best way to install this type of multiple Linux OSs? Does it support?
If I follow the instructions above not having to install the boot loader for my next subsequence Linux install, would this work for me?
Is it best way to have each OS to own their own /boot filesystem so that it does not override each other during the installation?
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated....
A side question. Let say I have Windows, RH 4 and RH 5 installed and boot loader is working fine. When I make any partition modification from Computer Management in Windows OS, would it mess up the GRUP boot loader? I have experienced this that this has happened to me multiple times. After I deleted a NTFS partion from Windows OS, rebooted the machine will cause the boot loader failing to load and I get a GRUB> prompt. This drive me nuts. I could not find a way to fix it until I do a Linux rescue install again.
Any good suggestion on this one as well to avoid getting a GRUB> prompt?
David.
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