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Help this moron please with the dual setup please???

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Bazoukas:
I made two partitions. On the sexond partion  i installed Mandrake WITHOUT any bootloader (Lilo and Grub).

  On the First partition I installed RedHat WITH Grub.


 Now When i boot up,  RedHat loads up just fine but in Grub I only see RedHat.
 In order to get into Mandrake I have to use the boot flopy disk.

 I did it this way, because I thought the bootloader of RedHat in the first partition would see Mandrake but it didnt.


 Any help please?   :D  

 Thank you in advance even if you do call me a moron  

choasmaster:
well, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people. nah, just kidding you did it the same way i would have, in fact i just did almost the same thing. all you have to tell grub is the root drive and the relitive location of the kernel you wish to boot.

grub starts counting drives at 0, then 1, then 2 and so on. im assuming that your 2 hd's are on the ide chain. so here goes what i think the added menu entry in the grub.conf file would be,

title Madrake linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/wherever/the/kerenl/would/happen/to/be
boot

you have to know where the kernel is to boot it, i hope that this helped

choasmaster:
oops, i just did something dumb, instead of that entrie, could you tell us your partitions and hardrives, it would help

Bazoukas:
Thank you for your reply  Right now am using Windfuk98 and AOL. Windfuck is in a different HD by the way.   Am gonna do this by memory.


 I will describe to you how my HD is set up accordinly to how I did the Install.

Both are in the same HD.

Mandrake is in hda5(/boot ext 32) hda6( / ext 32) hda7 (swap)

RedHat is in hda1 (boot Journalised) hda2 (/ journalised) hda3 (swap).

Now I know what you are thinking where is hda4. Now that am thinking of it I dont know. I left though 35MB of free space between the two partitions just like a safe zone.
I do know though that both OSs work fine.

Bazoukas:
btw this may have nothing to do with anything but you never know. My HD is 40 gigs and i broke down the HD almost in half. I left more space for ReHat because when i will get cable again i wanna use it as a server.

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