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It would appear that on May 24, john brennan-sardou did say:
> 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.conf
> #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
Well John, I can't say I've read all "forty-five page"s of the doc,
(didn't count them either) But when I let grub install itself for FC2
I told it to add entries for each of my linux. And they all looked like
your fedcore entry... And ALL of them got that error... I also noticed
that the rootnoverify & chainloader lines were used for the non linux
win98 partition (which worked for win98) And that convinced me to
quickly scan "info grub" for a few clues, then used the working FC2
entry as a guide to rebuild the other linux entries with some help from
my old lilo.conf for details like kernel names and clues what to append
to the kernel for it... After which the only thing I still can't boot
with grub is my DrDos hdc1 partition...<sigh>
My working FC2 & FC1 entries look like this:
title theWanderlust (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd1,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=/dev/hdc4 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title theJourney
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl ro root=/dev/hdc3 hdb=ide-scsi
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.img
Of course I've never bought into the idea that root=LABEL was easier than
specifying the /dev/hd* <grin>
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