john brennan-sardou wrote:
hello, I try to be a cautious guy so before installing fedora 2 on test and killing off fed 1 I decided to put it on my second disk and have a dual boot. Well, I got grubbed. No surprise I suppose. Here is the grub.confBefore installing FC2 on the second drive, you might have needed to install grub into your boot partition before rebooting. Then when FC2 was installed on the secondary drive, the entries should have worked.
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title fedcore
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
When I boot into the old fed core one this is the message :
" Error 13 Invalid or unsupported executable format "
The name fedcore as you can see is the first primary disk and fed 2 is on the second. I know I should be reading the forty-five page doc on my desk but I would feel better disposed to grub if I could get out of this quick.My first disk is full of work material. I have already tried the LBA bios change on the mail list but no joy. Thanks a lot John Brennan-Sardou
When you installed FC1, it probably installed the boot loader into mbr. Now with FC2 installed, it overwrote the early stages of grub.
To repair the boot loader after the install in in the current state, you can do one of the following things to correct the booting into FC! problem.
1) install the first disk of FC2 or the rescue CD. Boot system. Fedora should be able to detect both installations. Choose the installation with FC1 installed. Once in the shell for FC1 type the below.
chroot /mnt/sysimage
This should give you the FC1 environment. Now you need to type the below information.
grub-install /dev/hda1
This should install grub into /dev/hda1 and leave alone the mbr installation that FC2 put onto your system.
2) Alternatively, you can mount the volume that contains FC1's boot partition. Then with a editor you can open an editor by pointing it to the /fc1boot/grub/grub.conf file. You then need to open up /boot/grub/grub.conf file for FC2.
What you want to do is to copy the boot options for your FC1 grub.conf file and paste it into your FC2 grub.conf file. This will allow you to boot into FC1 with a reboot, but will force you to repeat this procedure for each kernel update. There should not be many kernel updates, so you should not need to do this frequently.
With method 1, FC1 should take care of FC1's boot loader with any kernel upgrades. FC2 will take care of FC2's boot loader, but leave the chainloader intact.
If you try method 1 and it does not work, pass it on. I use the method myself and it works for me.
Method 2 is what I used for a long time. his should work without any difficulties.
Jim
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