The Shell Game

Happy Holidays from me and Tux to you!!

GRUB has been whipped into submission.  I now have a fully functional, triple booting laptop.

It was hard getting to this point.  Typos are the worst.  But I found one on my own and my tutor found the other one.

For the curious, my grub.conf looks like this.  I removed my name for privacy.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Modified by Kathryn
# August 27, 2007
# To triple boot Vista, Ubuntu 7.04 and Fedora Core 7 (Quiet and Verbose)
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,5)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
#          initrd /boot/initrd- version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core 7 – QUIET
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Fedora Core 7 – VERBOSE
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Ubuntu 7.04 – QUIET
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic ro root=/dev/sda5 quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img- 2.6.20-15-generic
title Ubuntu 7.04 – VERBOSE
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic ro root=/dev/sda5
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
title Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Welcome to “The Shell Game”. My name is Kathryn, and I’ll be your host for this evening.

So what is this all about?

I’m a recent covert to the world of Linux. This blog is a record of my journey from complete noob to where ever I end up.

Enjoy. Ask questions. Play along with me. I enjoy learning and if anyone more experienced than me (which is just about anybody who’s installed Linux) has tips and tricks to pass along, I’d love to see them.

~Kathryn