Hi peoples…
ok… i have 2 hard drives and 2 distro’s…
I had Arch linux on sdb and i reinstalled opensuse today on sda. unfortunately arch linux wasn’t automatically configured by grub… so I mounted and copied the arch menu.lst parts that i needed and put it in my menu.lst in opensuse (as grub from my opensuse installation is now the default)
But it fails to boot…
i’ll post my partitions/drives/menu.lst config
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2611 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2612 19457 135315495 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00022715
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104422 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 14 46 265072+ 82 Linux swap / S
/dev/sdb3 47 1003 7687102+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 1004 9729 70091595 83 Linux
here is my menu.lst in arch
Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
/boot/grub/menu.lst
DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
Linux Grub
-------------------------
/dev/fd0 (fd0)
/dev/sda (hd0)
/dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
/dev/sda3 (hd0,2)
FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
±------------------------------------------------+
| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----±-------------------------------------------
256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
±------------------------------------------------+
for more details and different resolutions see
GRUB - ArchWiki
general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
boot sections follow
each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add “vga=773” to your kernel line.
#-*
(0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/af5ceced-0a4b-41a7-b923-b6bcc2991621 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
(1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/af5ceced-0a4b-41a7-b923-b6bcc2991621 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
and heres my menu.lst in Opensuse with arch linux added to it
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.29-0.1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-0.1-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160815AS_5RA2VFXY-part1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_STM380211AS_6PT1KB90-part2 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.29-0.1-pae
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe – openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.29-0.1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-0.1-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160815AS_5RA2VFXY-part1 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x31a
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.29-0.1-pae
(0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26
root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/af5ceced-0a4b-41a7-b923-b6bcc2991621 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
(1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26
root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/af5ceced-0a4b-41a7-b923-b6bcc2991621 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
any ideas?
cheers
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