Hi, I have a very strange GRUB problem. My system has two disk drives, one of which with two Linux installs. MBR of each disk has been setup from separate installs to allow booting either Linux:
IDE disk (MBR setup from IDE part2) Part1: Mint 7 (Ubuntu 9.04 based) Part2: Ubuntu 8.04 SATA disk (MBR setup from IDE part1) Part1-5: swap and user-data partitions Grub version of both Linux installs is 0.97. I have identical pair of stanzas for these two Linux installs in both partitions' /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic #root (hd1,0) uuid 3403d691-06fd-4646-840c-8f936fd99ab9 #kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=3403d691-06fd-4646-840c-8f936fd99ab9 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic (on /dev/sdb2) #root (hd1,1) uuid 9c17f912-7f27-40c4-a8c2-141924762217 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=9c17f912-7f27-40c4-a8c2-141924762217 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic I stress again that pair of stanzas in question are copies of each other. I have confirmed this by diffing them. I can boot both Linux installs from the MBR that was setup by that very install. No problems. However, neither of them can boot the other install. I get "Error 15: file not found." In other words, I *can* boot from IDE disk's MBR the Ubuntu 8.04 install, but *cannot* boot the Mint install. Opposite is also true, i.e. I *can* boot from SATA disk's MBR the Mint install, but *cannot* boot the Ubuntu install. Since the stanzas are the same, files is really where they should be, and the error message is bogus. As each stanza works from one MBR, but somehow the same stanza does not work from the other MBR. I am totally stumped. So, to switch between these two Linuxes, I am forced to change boot order from BIOS everytime. Pain in you know where. :-( I know it should not be necessary but, I even re-setup the SATA MBR after I added the Ubuntu 8.04 stanza. Needless to say it did not help. What am I missing? Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Two-GRUB-setup-can-boot-one-each-of-two-installs%2C-but-not-the-other%2C-why--tp26822959p26822959.html Sent from the Grub - Bugs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
