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[ILUG] Fedora not getting after install Debian

[ILUG] Fedora not getting after install Debian

Saju A P mail2saju at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 07:07:32 IST 2006


My problem is not solved. Pls help me. Here I am attaching my fstab
and menu.list
Fstab entry on Debian Sarge
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda10      /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda9       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hda1       /disk1          vfat    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda6       /disk2          vfat    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda7       /disk3          vfat    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda8       /disk4          ext3    defaults        0       0

menu.list entry on Debian Sarge

default		0
color cyan/blue white/blue

title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386
root		(hd0,9)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda10 ro
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
savedefault
boot

title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386 (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,9)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda10 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
savedefault
boot

title		Other operating systems:
root

title		Windows NT/2000/XP (loader)
root		(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1

title		Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) (on /dev/hda8)
root		(hd0,7)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 root=/dev/hda8
savedefault
boot

fstab entry on Fedora Core 5

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hda91        swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda1               /disk1                  vfat    defaults        0 0


menu.list entry on Fedora Core 5

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
	root (hd0,7)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
title Windows
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1



On 8/5/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> On Saturday 05 August 2006 09:51, Saju A P wrote:
> > I installed windows XP and Fedora Core 5 on my system. It was working
> > properly but when I installed Debian sarge on my free partition I am
> > not getting Fedora. When I try to load fedora it's reboot
> > automatically I found some message something like SELinux on loading
> > this so I try to update fedora but on that time It's showing this
> > message.
> > It contain two "/"(root label) first fix that problem and try again.
> > Can I install Win XP, Fedora Core 5 and Debian sarge on one system?
>
> Yes, you can.
>
> It sounds to me (you should give the exact error message)
> as though you may have two partitions with the same label.
> If that is so you can either change one of the labels with e2label,
> or you can alter /etc/grub.conf (and maybe /etc/fstab)
> to use eg "root=/dev/hda3" instead of labels.
>
> If you want more advice, post your /etc/grub.conf and /etc/fstab .
>
>
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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