Configuring the GRUB Bootloader in FC4

EarthBoundMisfi · #1 23rd December 2005, 01:36 AM

Hi all.
I'm currently a Xandros 3.0 distro user...I want to get my feet wet in Fedora Core 4.
Xandros is a good distro, but too many of tehir packages have to be specially compiled for them to work.
My problem is this.
I installed FC4 a few weeks back, but had to reinstall Xandros...cuz the GRUB bootloader didn't see my two other OS's
Drive A is a 120 gig drive and has Xandros and Windows XP installed.
Drive B has WIndows XP only installed (my wife's 'side' of the computer)
How do I configure grub.conf to see Windows XP on drives A&B?? (They're bothe IDE)
Glenn Condrey
the EarthBoundMisfit
PS Thanks for any help in advance

axelseap · #2 23rd December 2005, 01:41 AM

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Code:

yum install gnome-system-tools -y

then run boot-admin and add it

EarthBoundMisfi · #3 23rd December 2005, 02:40 AM

I did that....and I got the following message.....
Parsing package install arguments
No match for argument : gnome-system-tools
Nothing to do
[root@localhost glenn]#

***Firewing1*** · #4 23rd December 2005, 02:47 AM

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yum install system-config-boot
run system-config-boot
setup the drives
Firewing1

axelseap · #5 23rd December 2005, 03:05 AM

system-config-boot only allows you to select the default partition and change the wait time it doesn't allow u to add ones. in order to use yum to grab gnome-system-tools you must add the nrpms repo create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/nrpms.repo and add this to it

Code:

[nrpms]
name=Fedora Core 4 - i386 - nr production
baseurl=http://yum.nrpms.net/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/production/
mirrorlist=http://yum.nrpms.net/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/production/mirrors-nrpms
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

then try it

EarthBoundMisfi · #6 23rd December 2005, 04:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by axelseap

system-config-boot only allows you to select the default partition and change the wait time it doesn't allow u to add ones. in order to use yum to grab gnome-system-tools you must add the nrpms repo create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/nrpms.repo and add this to it

Code:

[nrpms]
name=Fedora Core 4 - i386 - nr production
baseurl=http://yum.nrpms.net/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/production/
mirrorlist=http://yum.nrpms.net/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/production/mirrors-nrpms
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

then try it

Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: rpms
failure: repodata /repomd.xml from nrpms [error 256] No more mirrors to try

Lemme ask this...
I had a similar problem a year back when installed Debian.
That time I edited the grub.conf file to see my drives.
Isnt there a way to do that here in Fedora??

axelseap · #7 23rd December 2005, 04:30 AM

the easiest is probably to use the boot-admin program that is in gnome-system-tools. if u are gettting that error try doing a

Code:

rm -rf /var/cache/yum/nrpms

then try to install it. if not u can still edit /boot/grub/grub.conf manually

EarthBoundMisfi · #8 23rd December 2005, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by axelseap

the easiest is probably to use the boot-admin program that is in gnome-system-tools. if u are gettting that error try doing a

Code:

rm -rf /var/cache/yum/nrpms

then try to install it. if not u can still edit /boot/grub/grub.conf manually

My question all along is what do I put in gub.conf to make it see Windows XP on drives A&B?
This is the easiest way I know (similar to a problem I had with setting up Debian once upon a time)
Glenn