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 -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
