Dual Boot into Mandrake and Fedora


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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

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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...

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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

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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

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oh, im gonna install suse later also, will the boot manager in suse automaticly configure it so that i can use all 3 distros?

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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.

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