[ale] Adding entry to FC2 grub so I can boot SUSE

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Fri Jun 18 19:48:21 EDT 2004


I installed SUSE 9.1 on my desktop machine as the sole OS with lilo as
the boot manager on the MBR.  I then installed Fedora Core 2 on some
free space on the same drive and put grub on the MBR (effectively
overwriting the original lilo.  I have an FC2 entry in grub, but no
entry for SUSE, so I currently can't boot into SUSE.  The / partition
for SUSE is /dev/hda1 (FC2's / is on /dev/hda8).  I want to add an entry
for SUSE to grub.conf in FC2 so I can boot.   I thought I understood the
syntax, but it will not work with the following in my /etc/grub.conf
file:

[root at localhost trey]# cat /etc/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/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435)
        root (hd0,7)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.6-1.435.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
        root (hd0,7)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title SUSE 9.1
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.4-54.5-default
        chainloader +1
[root at localhost trey]#


Hoping someone can get me straightened out so I can get back into SUSE.

Thanks.

-- 
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Trey
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