[Novalug] CentOS/ubuntu : second update

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, I Beartooth wrote:

 	[snipperoo]

> 	I finally gave up on partlogic; and my gparted live cd 
> wouldn't boot. So I burned a second copy of ubuntu 
> 6.06.1-alternate, which unlike the first copy did boot, and 
> tried to slog my way through installing in text mode, something 
> I had never tried before.

 	[snipperee]

> 	Now the blamefool thing boots *only* to ubuntu, and I 
> can't even find a grub.conf file to edit. Not plain, not in 
> /etc, not in /boot, afaict.

 	[snippera-ha-ha]

 	With lots of help from NinoP, RogerB, KevinC, and 
especially MeganL -- using files and commands I hadn't known 
existed, like "grep -ril" and /boot/grub/menu.lst or "mount" (all 
by itself(!) and with various arguments) and "fdisk -l" -- I 
managed to get the grub entries for CentOS mounted into a test 
file, from whence I copied them into Ubuntu's grub.conf.

 	On reboot, I now get a grub menu with several options for 
each OS; but choosing a CentOS one just gets me to a kernel 
panic, with the outraged note that something (unspecified) tried 
to kill init.

 	Not even Ctrl-Alt-Delete seems to work at that point; but 
hitting the reset button does. So I try another CentOS option, 
and hit another kernel panic. <sigh>

 	At present, I'm booted back into Ubuntu, using nano -w on 
/boot/grub/menu.lst, wondering how to run, like a CentOSipede 
strayed into the old rhyme -- even the part about lying 
distracted in a ditch feels apt, all too apt ...

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User, with precious 
(very precious) little idea where up is.