need help - how to do between lilo and grup

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

So, you are saying the /dev/hda7 is your red hat 7.1 root partition?
Did you have a separate root and boot partition. Please post your
menu.lst line that lists your RH 7.1.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:20:16 -0700 (PDT)
Dava Peters <gameslover987 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I still have problem. If I select boot from Red Hat
> 7.1 and got the error could not find /dev/hda7.
> That's what I did, I edit menu.1st. 
> I have trouble it seems the new ES doesn't see old
> paritition. 
> 
> Do I need to modify /etc/fstab to add the old
> partition and what's else I need to do.
> 
> Thanks for help.
> 
> --
> DP
> 
> This is my setup:
> ...........................
> [root at data root]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda11            9.7G  259M  8.9G   3% /
> /dev/hda9             114M   15M   94M  14% /boot
> /dev/hda10            9.7G   33M  9.1G   1% /home
> none                  499M     0  499M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda13            4.2G   33M  4.0G   1% /date
> /dev/hda12            6.8G  2.1G  4.4G  32% /usr
> .....................................
> [root at data root]# fdisk /dev/hda
> 
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 14593.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger
> than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions
> of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id 
> System
> /dev/hda1   *         1         5     40131   83 
> Linux
> /dev/hda2             6     14593 117178110    f 
> Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5             6      4425  35503618+  83 
> Linux
> /dev/hda6          4426      7372  23671746   83 
> Linux
> /dev/hda7          7373     10318  23663713+  83 
> Linux
> /dev/hda8         10319     10580   2104483+  82 
> Linux swap
> /dev/hda9         10581     10595    120456   83 
> Linux
> /dev/hda10        10596     11870  10241406   83 
> Linux
> /dev/hda11        11871     13145  10241406   83 
> Linux
> /dev/hda12        13146     14037   7164958+  83 
> Linux
> /dev/hda13        14038     14593   4466038+  83 
> Linux
> 
> ....................................
> 
> 
> Outcome from menu.1st
> 
> # 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 (hd0,8)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda11
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,8)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-4.ELsmp)
>         root (hd0,8)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.ELsmp ro
> root=LABEL=/1
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.21-4.ELsmp.img
> title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES-up (2.4.21-4.EL)
>         root (hd0,8)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL ro root=LABEL=/1
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.21-4.EL.img
> title Red Hat 7.1
>         kernel (hd0,0) /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7
>         initrd (hd0,0) /boot/initrd
> **************************************
> 
> [root at data grub]# more /etc/fstab
> LABEL=/1     /       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot1  /boot  ext3    defaults        1 2
> none  /dev/pts  devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> LABEL=/home1 /home  ext3    defaults        1 2
> none   /proc        proc    defaults        0 0
> none  /dev/shm      tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/data1  /data ext3    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/usr   /usr   ext3    defaults        1 2
> /dev/hda8  swap     swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,r
> o 0 0
> /dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy  auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> 
> ------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> --- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:29:02 -0700 (PDT)
> > Dava Peters <gameslover987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks. I'll try.
> > BTW: You could install LILO on the RH7.1 system and
> > install it on the
> > partition rather than the MBR, but it is an extra
> > step.
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> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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