Re: booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

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On 09-09-20 08:26:26, James Allsopp wrote:
> Ok, I've tried substituting /dev/sdb2 and /dev/sda2 for the root,
> nothing changes.
> 
> When I installed the F11 OS on sdb, I asked it to install the
> bootloader on sda to overwrite my existing bootloader, this didn't 
> work, so I rescued the 10 OS and from there I reinstalled the 
> bootloader onto /dev/sda.  This got F10 working again. I mounted dev/
> sdb1 and copied the lines out of the F11 grub.conf into the F10 (/
> dev/sda1) grub.conf then reinstalled the bootloader grub-install /
> dev/sda). F10 boots, but F11 doesn't., it gives me an Error 17.

`info grub` shows that Error 17 is "Cannot mount selected partition", 
which means that it can't handle the "root (hd1,0)" line.  Check that 
"(hd1,0)" is the /boot partition for F11, containing the vmlinuz and 
initrd files for F11, and that it is an EXT2/3 partition.

You might have an easier time just chainloading to the F11 GRUB.  Use a 
stanza like the "Other" stanza, but for "(hd1,0)" (if that is the 
correct partition).


> Here's the F10 grub.conf
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to 
> this
> file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd1,0)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/sdb
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686)
>     root (hd0,0)
>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet vga=0x318
>     initrd /initrd-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686.img
> title Fedora 11 64-bit
>     root (hd1,0)
>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=7ba6f364-68c2-4dad-a54e-18c3464b0eb5 rhgb quiet
>     initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.img
> title Other
>     rootnoverify (hd2,0)
>     chainloader +1
> 
> And here's the F11 grub.conf
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64)
>     root (hd1,0)
>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=7ba6f364-68c2-4dad-a54e-18c3464b0eb5 rhgb quiet
>     initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.img
> title Other
>     rootnoverify (hd2,0)
>     chainloader +1
> title Fedora 10
>     rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>     chainloader +1

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