Re: grub 2: "error: You need to load the kernel first"

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> I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 along side F11. My disk now looks like this:
>
> /dev/sda1 F11 boot
> /dev/sda2 F11 root
> /dev/sda3 F11 swap
> /dev/sda5 F11 home
> /dev/sda6 9.10 root
> /dev/sda7 9.10 home
> /dev/sda8 91.0 swap
>
> When I reboot, I get grub, which has entries listed for both systems, but
> when I try to boot Fedora now, I get an error message: "error: You need to
> load the kernel first". (Ubuntu boots fine).
>
> I've tried booting manually from the grub command line, but the commands no
> longer appear to be the same, as Ubuntu is now using grub 2. Here are the
> relevant section from grub.cfg (menu.lst is now obsolete):
>
> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
> menuentry "Fedora (2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586) (on /dev/sda2)" {
>        insmod ext2
>        set root=(hd0,2)
>        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7
>        linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586 ro
> root=UUID=5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7 rhgb resume=/dev/sda3
>        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586.img
> }
> menuentry "Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586) (on /dev/sda2)" {
>        insmod ext2
>        set root=(hd0,2)
>        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7
>        linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 ro
> root=UUID=5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7 resume=/dev/sda3 rhgb
>        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586.img
> }
> ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
>
> The above entries were generated automatically.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix the error?
>
> Alternately, is there a way of telling the MBR to boot /dev/sda1 (F11 boot)
> instead of /dev/sda6 (Ubuntu root), which is what is happening now?


menuentry "Fedora (2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586) (on /dev/sda2)" {
       insmod ext2
       set root=(hd0,2)
       search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7
       linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586 ro
root=UUID=5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7 rhgb resume=/dev/sda3
       initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586.img
}

Change
       set root=(hd0,2)
to
       set root=(hd0,1)

Change
       search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7
to
       search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set UUID_of_sda1

Change
       linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586 ro
to
       linux /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586 ro

Change
root=UUID=5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7 rhgb resume=/dev/sda3
to
root=UUID=UUID_of_sda2 rhgb resume=/dev/sda3

Change
       initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586.img
to
       initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586.img

(What does "resume=/dev/sda3" do?)

You can either change these lines in /boot/grub/grub.cfg (but keep a
backup because it will be overwritten the next time that grub-mkconfig
is run) or chmod -x /etc/grub.d/30_os-probe and add your Fedora
entries into /etc/grub.d/40_custom.

# cat /etc/grub.d/40_custom
cat << EOF
menuentry "F11 on sda1/sda2 {
...
}
EOF

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