How to fix /boot/grub/menu.lst - part 2 of 2 parts

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 18:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:01 -0500, joe wrote:
> > Thanks very much, Craig. 
> > 
> > Just to be sure that I am understanding you correctly, 
> > are you saying that while booted in to the mandriva 
> > partition, as root, at the command line, I just type this: 
> > 
> > mkinitrd initrd-win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk.img win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk
> > 
> > ... and the system will (or should) reboot to the win4lin kernel? 
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> I'm thinking yes. I know on Red Hat / Fedora systems, you need an initrd
> image to boot and judging from your grub.conf, Mandriva is no different.
> The above command should create the initrd image.
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> > 
> > Then, I'm assuming that if this works, I'll need to build a 
> > new /boot/grub/menu.lst in the mandriva partition to replace 
> > the one currently being used in the mepis partition. Is that 
> > right?  I know, one step at a time, but just trying to get 
> > this all in focus. ;)) 
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> interesting point - my thinking is that the only time that this is
> referenced is at the original boot which I am assuming means that
> your /dev/hda grub is set to pull this info from hd(0,0) - the /boot
> volume from your original install (Mepis?) and I can't see the need to
> have it all duplicated in the Mandriva /boot hd(0,5). In fact, I am
> thinking that having multiple '/boot' partitions is a source of
> confusion and I probably would have wanted it all consolidated within
> one boot partition because I am not smart enough to keep it all
> straight. Thus, copying grub.lst from the one to the other shouldn't be
> necessary but it shouldn't hurt anything either.
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Craig