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.. all on one Hard drive. Yeah sounds like fun doesn't it. Well I ran into only one problem, Fedora won't boot, keep getting a kernel panic. First I installed XP, then Mandrake (with GRUB 0.95) then Fedora 4 with no boot loader, Mandrake doesn't offer the option. 2 Partitions, hda3 and 4. 3 is the 102 mb ext3. 4 is the VolGroup00 seperated into LogVol0 ext3 and LogVol1 swap. Everything is porportioned according to the auto partitioning, except I manually did it to make space on the hard drive in case I wanted to stick SuSE in there. But anyway I would like to know what I need to put in to Grub for fedora to boot without a panic, this is what I got. I'll put a few above lines to help. mounting root filesystem kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot.initrd) failed : 2 umount /initrd/sys failed :2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 Initrd finished Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. This is what it uses to boot. kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-6mdksmp root=/dev/hda3 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.11-mdksmp.img Then I tried removing some things and made it look like most posts on this forum and got. kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 I get the same kernel panic. Now would you recommend just intalling fedora's grub over mandrakes or is there some way I can make this work. Also if I install fedoras over mandrake's I lose mandrake and gain fedora. Fedora doesn't see mandrake and mandrake doesn't see fedora. I can't mount fedora's partitions in mandrake and manually hunt down the path and file names of the kernel, root and initrd or I would've tried that. Ideas?

I won't get another go* at this til thursday but the LABEL it's referring to may simply be the "Fedora" back splash screen when it's booting. The Mandrake 10.2 uses GRUB 0.95 and it's solely 80x25 text based. But when I checked out the mandrake line it had a line right after the root =/dev... (something). That (something) is me forgetting what the line looked like because the comp I'm doing this on is 50 miles away atm lol. But it was kernel=/dev/... root=/dev/... (something)/xxx.img Basically it was the file that is used for the image during boot, just the like the windows splash screen while its loading files after it finds which windows to load. I dunno, it is really odd to have LABEL in there like that, especially between = signs. EDIT- * Odd I didn't think c.rac.k (without periods) would be asterisked out, I had to swap it out with "go" lol.

Oh ok, kinda forgot about the offset by 1 thing when numbering in computer terms, rack that up to a brain fart. the partition labels are actually hda3 and 4, so I need to change the boot to kernel (hd0,2) where the boot should be then of course correct the logical volume thing. Well just tried it, pointed it to (hd0,2) and ,3) and got a cannot find file and cannot mount partition, and tried multiple combinations. like kern.. (hd0,2) root.. then initrd=(hd0,2),3),4) and so on. nothing really helped. I think it may actually be trying to boot fedora using mandrakes initrd img. I'm thinking I'll just forget this copy what mandrake uses to boot up with and install fedora core 4 again and overwrite mandrakes boot loader. Maybe then something may work.