Bug#336877: debian-installer: does not add initrd line when configuring Fedora Core 3 dualboot
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Hi,
This report may be more appropriate for grub, but I'm not sure.
When configuring dual boot with Fedora Core 3, the Sarge Debian install adds
the lines
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[...]
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda2.
title Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) (on /dev/hda2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 root=/dev/hda2
savedefault
boot
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to /boot/grub/menu.lst.
However, this kernel is an initrd image, so that does not work. The
following works (but may be sub-optimal).
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title Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) (on /dev/hda2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 root=/dev/hda2 ro
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
savedefault
boot
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The contents of /boot on the Fedora Core installation appear below.
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drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 1 11:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Nov 1 13:03 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Jun 15 2004 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Jun 15 2004 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50929 Nov 2 2004 config-2.6.9-1.667
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 1 11:05 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 397193 Oct 31 15:35 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Oct 31 10:27 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81860 Sep 29 2004 memtest86+-1.26
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Jun 15 2004 os2_d.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 714266 Nov 2 2004 System.map-2.6.9-1.667
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1405861 Nov 2 2004 vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
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Thanks. Faheem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27.040914
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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