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JawsThemeSwimming428 · Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 127

Not sure about putting a few /home's in the same partition but I would not put your antiX /home and data backup on the same partition. If that partition would become corrupt you would lose two things instead of one.

Swarup · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 45

JawsThemeSwimming428 · Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 127

No problem! Let me know if you find anything.

Swarup · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 45

Well, one practical point I can report on-- I went ahead and set up partitions today on my HD in order to install AntiX. I had plans to add other small distros on that HD as well in order to do a comparison, so before the AntiX install I wanted to set up several extra partitions in anticipation of adding more root partitions and home partitions later. But I found, or rather gparted reminded me, that one can only create a maximum of four primary partitions or which one is swap. That leaves you with three. And one of those can be an extended partition with two logical partitions inside. So aside from swap, it gives you a total of four partitions to work with. At least, that is the limit if you use gparted. That will only allow for setting up two distros on the drive, if you want to keep the root and home directories in separate partitions. I guess one could squeeze up to four distros on the HD using gparted, but only if you keep the "/" and "/home" in the same partition. Am I missing something here? Sounds like two distros is the limit if you keep the / and /home in separate partitions.

eriefisher · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:50 am Post subject:

You should be able to create as many extended partitions inside those logical partitions.
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Swarup · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 45

I see, that's interesting. If it is like that, then it does give scope for a few extra distros. --So long as the grub menu can manage them. Anyhow, my 10g HD is not going to allow me to put so many on to test all that. But at least the theory is clear now. Thank you.

Swarup · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 45

Well, now I created a bit of a problem. But nothing that someone here won't be able to clear up I'm sure. I set up my 10g HD with one 3g extended partition (hda1) containing two logical drives (hda 5 & 6)-- one a 2g partition which I put AntiX "/" on, and one a 1g partition which I put AntiX "/home" on. Then there are three other primary partitions-- one 385 mb partition (hda3) for swap, a 2g partition (hda2) for another distro's root, and a 4g partition (hda4) which will be for that distro's "/home" plus will also serve as a backup location for data from another drive. So first I set up AntiX and had AntiX set up its Grub menu. And AntiX was booting fine. But then tonite, I installed Tinyflux with its root on hda2, and home on hda4. Tinyflux of course set up its own Grub, and invited me to add any other linux or Win OS's already on the HD, into the Grub menu. So I added AntiX into the Grub menu, giving the info when asked, that its root is located in hda5. Tinyflux's Grub setup also wanted to know what kernel AntiX uses, and I of course did not know. But the wizard supplied some default kernel name which I accepted. Anyhow, the grub menu looks fine, with both Tinyflux and AntiX listed there. But only Tinyflux boots up. If I select AntiX, it gets stuck quickly, gives some error messages, and can't boot. My guess is that AntiX isn't properly listed somehow in the Grub menu or something.

1. Given the limitations of a 10g HD, did I set up the structure and architecture of the two distros and 5 partitions the best way I could have?

2. Can someone tell me what I have to do to fix things with Grub so AntiX will again boot properly as it did when I initially installed it?

eriefisher · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject:

Post your /boot/grub/menu.lst so we can have a look.
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Swarup · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 45

ok, I'm going to put the HD back in my laptop now, and in a few minutes will be able to paste the menu.1st contents here.

Swarup · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 45

Here is the menu.1st file:

anticapitalista · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject:

Change the antiX section to this:

title antiX-M7.2
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 nomce quiet nosplash vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img

If that doesn't work try this:

title antiX
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-1-mepis-smp root=/dev/hda5 ro quiet nosplash vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-1-mepis-smp
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Swarup · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 45

Ok, I've tried the first one you gave and it didn't work. I am typing the error it gave below, in case it is of any use. In the mean time I'll try the second one now and see if it works.

Swarup · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 45

I just tried the second way, and got the very same error as I got with the first way. And I put in my Parted Magic livecd, booted to it and opened gparted just to make sure all the filesystems are ext3. They are. And as per gparted, all the partitions are ok.

Why then is grub saying it is of type ext2?

What should I try next?

eriefisher · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject:

I would try using the Antix live cd and reinstall grub. It should see both installs and configure them in the menu.
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