[SlugLUG] My two linuxes

[Peter Belew]

One thing I've run into in the past is that some distros label partitions
by default (RH for example, I think) and set up fstab using the labels
instead of device names to identify partitions. this can cause the
boot to mount the wrong partitions!

Peter

On 9/6/06, cerise at armory.com <cerise at armory.com> wrote:
> grub has a "hide" directive.  That will probably reveal where the problem
> is.  I suspect you have something misconfigured though (perhaps /etc/fstab?).
>
> -Phil/CERisE
>
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:25:13AM -0700, Eric wrote:
> > 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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