Grub Dual-booting Arch64 and Arch i686[SOLVED]

kaola_linux · 2008-12-06 19:06:42

Hello,
I've managed to install Arch Linux x86_64 the other day leaving my Arch i686 untouched. I have also an existing Windows Xp installation. This time I wanna do triple-boot these 3 on my grub..:P How can I do that?

Here is my partition scheme:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3265    26226081    7  HPFS/NTFS (Windows Xp)
/dev/sda2            3266       16308   104767897+   5  Extended
/dev/sda3   *       16309       16312       32130   83  Linux /boot (x86_64)
/dev/sda5            3266        7183    31471302+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6            7184       10836    29342691   83  Linux / (i686)
/dev/sda7           10837       11444     4883728+  83  Linux /var (i686)
/dev/sda8           11445       13268    14651248+  83  Linux /  (x86_64)
/dev/sda9           13269       15092    14651248+  83  Linux /home  (x86_64)
/dev/sda10          15093       16308     9767488+  83  Linux /var  (x86_64)

Hope this info would be helpful for solving my prob...
Thanks in advance [

Last edited by kaola_linux (2008-12-08 00:06:53)

Gauvenator · 2008-12-06 19:50:55

What you need to do is edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst in your most recent install.

For windows you need something like this:

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

For your other arch it should look like this:

title  Arch Linux i686
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

for your i686 arch entry you can double check the /boot/grub/menu.lst in that installation to make sure I have it right.

Last edited by Gauvenator (2008-12-06 19:54:03)

kaola_linux · 2008-12-08 00:06:21

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux (i686)
root   (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback (i686)
root   (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux(x86_64)
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/8885705e-0dc7-415c-968d-fd3508b2f4c6 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback(x86_64)
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/8885705e-0dc7-415c-968d-fd3508b2f4c6 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

# (4) Windows
title non-Linux OS:
title Windows Xp Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Here's my new grub menu.lst...:D
It worked perfectly...Thanks

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#1 2008-12-06 19:06:42

Grub Dual-booting Arch64 and Arch i686[SOLVED]

#2 2008-12-06 19:50:55

Re: Grub Dual-booting Arch64 and Arch i686[SOLVED]

#3 2008-12-08 00:06:21

Re: Grub Dual-booting Arch64 and Arch i686[SOLVED]

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