adding distros to grub on multiple hds

[inoculos]

hello all,, I am new to fedora, and have one year with ubuntu. I have 2 hds, one with ubuntu and xp on it,, another with my fedora install. I added Fedora to my ubuntu grub and it loads fine. I am told that fedora updates so often that it is better to let fedora's grub be in charge. During install I must have told it not to include my Windows and ubuntu options, because my menu.lst did not anything else listed.

cat menu.lst.bkup
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sdb
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=a514abb0-f75e-4a58-8770-41c1685671da rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img
title Other
	rootnoverify (hd1,0)
	chainloader +1

I modified it as follows

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sdb
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=a514abb0-f75e-4a58-8770-41c1685671da rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img
title  Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic
	root (hd1,1)
	kernal /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic root=UUID=bcff3fcd-a60d-4931-ab38-00802d3ada03 ro quiet splash 
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic
	quiet
#changed from (hd0,1) since I will be changing hd assingment in bios
title Other

#Windows 
title	Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root    (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive

	rootnoverify (hd1,0)
	chainloader +1

since I fedora is loaded on my second hard drive, but is listed as first hd first partition in grub/menu.lst I changed my ubuntu and windows to (hda1,0) and (hda1,1) respectively.

When I try to boot ubuntu I get error 19: Linux kernel must be loaded before initrd

when I try to boot windows it goes directly to Fedora's splash screen.

I was going to post the out put of fdisk but I get

@localhost grub]$ sudo fdisk
sudo: fdisk: command not found

Not sure what I am doing wrong....

[marko]

[QUOTE=inoculos;1108982]

.............
title  Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic
	root (hd1,1)
	kernal /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic root=UUID=bcff3fcd-a60d-4931-ab38-00802d3ada03 ro quiet splash 
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic
	quiet
...............

Was that just a typo here or did you really misspell "kernel" as "kernal" (see red)
in the grub.conf ? I bet if the latter, fixing that will solve the ubuntu problem

I was going to post the out put of fdisk but I get

@localhost grub]$ sudo fdisk
sudo: fdisk: command not found

Not sure what I am doing wrong....

This was just a path problem, try sudo /sbin/fdisk

[inoculos]

face palm


good catch lol

so ubuntu boots,, but not windows. It just displays what is in the grub.conf under other

#Windows 
title	Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root    (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive

	rootnoverify (hd1,0)
	chainloader +1

and says it is booting windows, but nothing happens. Anyone know how to get my windows partition to boot?

[inoculos]

bump, still need help getting my xp partition to boot

[stoat]

Originally Posted by inoculos

#Windows 
title	Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root    (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive

	rootnoverify (hd1,0)
	chainloader +1

Hello inoculos,

Any time you see the Windows system on a non-first drive in grub.conf, you should use the map GRUB menu command (see map in the GRUB manual). Try the Windows section like this...

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1

The root command was not necessary. The rootnoverify command does the same thing as the root command but without GRUB trying to mount the partition. The root command actually will work with Windows, but there is no use making GRUB try to mount a partition that it cannot mount. And there is certainly no reason to use both of them. See root and rootnoverify in the GRUB manual. The makeactive command is not needed by modern Windows systems (see Note 6 regarding makeactive in the GRUB manual). The savedefault command does no harm, but for it to have any meaning you must set the default command to "saved" (see savedefault in the GRUB manual). That can actually be kind of a neat thing. It makes the last choice made from the menu the new default.

P.S.: The grub.conf is extremely syntax sensitive even regarding things like spaces. It has to be perfect if you want it to work.

[inoculos]

worked great! thanks guys!

U had just copied my windows entry from my ubuntu grub, weird that its so different.