Yves Beeken wrote:
Hello,
I have installed Fedora on a new partition hd1/0, everything seems ok, Windows boots fine. I also want to boot my "old" RH9 but it won't. Here is my /etc/grub.conf:
#boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2149.nptl) root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1 hdc=ide-scsi rhgb initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.img title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2140.nptl) root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1 hdc=ide-scsi rhgb initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl.img title DOS rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Red Hat 9 rootnoverify (hd1,2) chainloader +1
I've done something similar using three dfferent versions of Fedora. If I understand your setup for RH9, you have the RH9 installation with a boot partition located on /dev/hdb3. If this is correct, you then need to boot up the RH9 installation from your boot floppy or first CD in rescue mode.
Once you are in RH9, run grub-install /dev/hdb3 - (Assuming your boot partition is on hdb3)
If by chance you only have a boot partition located on (hd1,0) - also known as /dev/hdb1 - the best thing to do is to forget the chainloader aproach and just copy the Fedora Core entry, rename the entry to Redhat 9 and change the reference in the LABEL= entry from LABEL=/1 to LABEL=/ and your RH9 might boot up, though crippled with an nptl kernel installation.
If you wanted to install the RH9 latest kernel before you loaded off your RH9 installation, you could download and install the latest kernel. To install the older kernel into your Fedora Core setup, you would have to run *rpm -i kernel-rh9-latest --oldpackage* to get this installed.
good luck,
Jim
PS - This is only a suggestion.
Can anybody suggest something?
Thanks
Yves
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