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Grub Configuration

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halfbarrel

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Hello,
I've just downloaded Fedora Core 3 and installed it on a sencond hard drive(/dev/hdf). My first hard drive(/dev/hde) has Fedora Core 2 on it. Here is the grub.conf file:
title Fedora Core 2 (2.6.8-1.521)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img

What do I need to add to it to be able to also boot to the FC3 OS? Here's what I tried last time:

title Fedora Core 3 (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/hdf2
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img

I can't find and example of multiple hard drive boots with two version of linux.
Thanks,

Chris.
 
I have WinXP on hda and FC3 on hdb - the FC3 install found both OSs correctly and built the grub configuration just fine. I don't see why it shouldn't do the same for your two Fedora installs. I'll check the grub config when I get home.
 
Code:
#boot=/dev/hda
default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.678_FC3)
        root (hd0,4)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.678_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.678_FC3.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
        root (hd0,4)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title Windows XP Home (SP2)
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1
Sorry for the delay, been a bit busy...
 
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