This one is driving me batty. I have an AMD64 laptop, and I have 3 different versions of Mandrake installed so I can try out the 64-bit version, plus one 9.2 32-bit that I can fall back on. I started out with 9.2 32-bit and installed grub into the MBR for that. I then installed 9.2 64-bit and 10.0 64-bit into other partitions, telling the installer to put grub into that partition instead of the MBR. Then I just copied the appropriate lines out of boot/grub/menu.lst from each of those 64-bit installations into the menu.lst for the 32-bit install. I was able to successfully boot all three.
But of course I couldn't leave well enough alone. Mandrake said they weren't going to support my eMachines laptop, which requires some custom tweaks. So I figured I'd give fedora64 core2 a try, and reformatted my Mandrake 10.0 64-bit partition. Did the same trick of copying lines from fedora menu.lst into Mandrake 32-bit menu.lst, everything worked. Didn't like fedora (really gotten used to Mandrake, and like it.) So I wanted to put 10.0 back into that partition and see if I could tweak the kernel myself for the eMachines. Finally, my problem: I've now installed 10.0 64-bit twice (using same hard-drive install files from the first successful install.) Install finishes fine. But each time I try to boot, it tells me: Error 2. Bad file or directory type I can't find a grub messages file that informs me what it can't find. I searched google and found some hits but none really helped. I'm out of ideas. I'm baffled how reinstalling the exact same files as the first time now produces a non-bootable system. I can still get into 9.2 32-bit and 9.2 64-bit. Here is what my working 9.2 64-bit grub entry looks like: title linux64-nonfb kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 noapic devfs=mount acpi=off resume=/dev/hda10 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img (kernel line wrapped.) The one that doesn't work looks exactly the same but with different partition numbers. Appreciate all suggestions to get this working again. Thanks. -- Guy Rouillier
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