nivek7 Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 (edited) I installed fedora core 1 first, then installed mandrake 9.2... but the bootloader only goes into mandrake... i need help configuring grub to going into fedora. i used automatic partition in the fedora installation so i dunno which partition is the right one i need. edit: i got grub to go, but then when it loads fedora, it says kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. spurious 8259a interrupt: irq7. i cant type anything and have to restart Edited March 8, 2004 by nivek7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 8, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 8, 2004 Do you use GRUB or LILO? If using GRUB (I'm not familiar with LILO), you might want to try going immediately to 'command mode' in GRUB by pressing 'c' while showing the GRUB screen. Then type kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda1 (but substitute the locations where your /boot is for whichever Linux kernel image you want is located, and use the appropriate root (/) partition for that flavor of Linux - Fedora or Mandrake) It would help if you told us a bit about what drive configuration you have, and the partitioning for each drive (or the one drive, if you put it on one hard drive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzai Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 Its prob lilo I had this prob but it was with windows. If it is lilo you need to open the file /etc/lilo.conf and edit it im not sure what you would need to input to ad fedora but once you have added it and save you need to run lilo in the terminal just open the terminal and type lilo. Have a look at this page it might help http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/linux_install/lilo.html and this is a good one http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ar...003/12/1/115221 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 whats your partition scheme setup like and what partions have what os installed on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nivek7 Posted March 9, 2004 Author Share Posted March 9, 2004 im using grub, and my partitions are this: hde1: boot thingy hde2: Fedora hde3 : swap thingy hde4: no clue hde5: think its mandrake lemme double check Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nivek7 Posted March 9, 2004 Author Share Posted March 9, 2004 no clue why it doesnt let me edit, but i double checked and it is: hde1: boot hde2: Fedora hde3: Linux Swap hde4: Mandrake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nivek7 Posted March 9, 2004 Author Share Posted March 9, 2004 oh, im gonna install suse later also, will the boot manager in suse automaticly configure it so that i can use all 3 distros? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 I don't know if suse will set seperate distros to boot. I am betting that you will have to manually edit the lilo/grub config file. If you read the documentation on lilo it is very easy to setup. Grub is a little harder in my opinion. They both can do it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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