[SlugLUG] My two linuxes

Eric eacarter at greenstorm.net
Wed Sep 6 10:25:13 PDT 2006


So I threw in a new hard drive (it's the primary master/hda/(hd0,1) )
and install Ubuntu on it. My old primary master which has Debian on it
became the primary slave/hdb/(hd1,1). This is the drive configuration
I'd like to keep for the long run. I added this entry
to /boot/grub/menu.lst:

title           Debian, 2.6
root            (hd1,1)
kernel          /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 ro
initrd          /initrd.img


Unfortunately the Debian kernel seems to be finding my Ubuntu install
and looking for all it's stuff there. This of course causes a good
number of problems including a bunch of fatal modprobe errors cause it
can't find /lib/sorry/I/Don't/have/complete/paths/something.

I also tried chainloading to LILO (which is what was booting debian
before), but grub complained about an unrecognized executable.

Anybody know how I can convince my Debian installation to leave Ubuntu
alone and just boot up off it's own drive?

Thanks,
EC

P.S. Would changing my /dev/hdb2/etc/fstab to reflect the new drive
arrangement work?



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