Arch Linux

jesso

Member

From: Barrie, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-06-28

Posts: 26

dual boot gentoo and arch

Can someone help me with a grub entry I'll need for my Gentoo grub.conf to boot Arch?

I want to skip the arch bootloader section on install, so I won't know what kernel is and stuff they use. (well, I guess I could mount the arch partition from gentoo to find out ).

I'll be using the latest cdrom I guess.

Ignore what partitions I'll use. I'm just not familiar how arch boots the kernel.

Thx

My current /boot/grub/grub.conf is:

cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.20-r6
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.20-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.20-gentoo-r6

title=Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

morellik

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 43

Re: dual boot gentoo and arch

I also have Arch and Gentoo, but I use the grub of Arch to boot. However the following is the menu.lst
parts regarding Arch.

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=773
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

jesso

Member

From: Barrie, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-06-28

Posts: 26

Re: dual boot gentoo and arch

Perfect!