On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:10 +0100, Jim van Wel wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> With fedora, you normally point to the kernel directive. Like this:
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_coolzeropc-lv_root rhgb quiet
>
> Here a full example:
>
> title Fedora (2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64)
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_coolzeropc-lv_root rhgb quiet vga=0x31B
> initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64.img
>
> This should work without problems. Of course, you need to set the
> root=/dev/mapper/whatever to your suitable settings. Good luck!
>
> Greetings,
> Jim.
>
It seems to me you have not made clear that the root= part is on the
same line as the kernel part.
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -----
> > Colin Brace
> > Amsterdam
> > http://lim.nl
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