[Wylug-help] dual boot problem with Fedora Core2

[Mike]

This is a known problem and I believe it is about reconfiguring grub -
but I don't know how. I had a machine running a relatively stable
version of W98 on the sole 60GB hdd. I installed an 80GB hdd and made it
master, the original slave, and installed a bog standard workstation
from FC2 discs 1 and 2 (kindly supplied on the cover of Linux Format,
August issue). Now there is only one disc/OS recognised at boot time. Am
I right in thinking it is a grub.conf problem or would I be better
putting install disc 1 back in and typing linux hda=10011,255,63 at the
boot: prompt? If it is grub.conf, can anyone tell me what I should
change it to?

/boot/grub/grub.conf reads as follows (with the output of fdisk -l
following):

#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, e.g.
#        root (hd0,hd0)
#        kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda2
#        initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 blahblah
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img

which completeds the file; I'm not sure if you need to know what fdisk
-l produces so I've put it at the end and the parts describing how the
discs are partitioned are unlikely to line up properly:

Disk /dev/hda: 82.3GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device  Boot   Start    End      Blocks      Id   System
/dev/hda1    *        1     13        104391    83   Linux
/dev/hda2            14   9914      79529782+   83   Linux
/dev/hda3          9915  10011        779152+   82   Linux swap

Disk /dev/hdb: 61.4GB, 61492838400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device  Boot   Start    End      Blocks      Id   System
/dev/hdb1    *        1   3907      31382946    c    W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb2          3908   7476      28667992    f    W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb5          3908   4545       5124703+   b    W95 FAT32
      (the remainder of this file describes how I have my W98 hdd
partitioned, not of help in solving the problem)

Many thanks for taking a look. Hope someone can help.

Best regards,

Mike
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mike at jazzitis.uklinux.net