--- On Wed, 6/3/09, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel(a)infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
From: Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel(a)infinity-ltd.com>
Subject: Re: Fix /boot/grub/grub.conf to chainload Fedora 11 Preview?? and Fedora 9 with
chainloader
To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
<fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 8:13 AM
Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear fellow Fedoreans,
>
> I have a machine which Windows, and Fedora 9 have
coexisted happily since Fedora 9 was released. I
shrunk the Windows Partition a bit more and setup an empty
place where I installed Fedora 11 Preview(to update it to
current Fedora 11 pre or rawhide whichever gets picked up
via updates)
>
> Now I can boot windows and Fedora 11, but can't boot
Fedora 9, everything is in there I can see the data, I just
can't boot it. Here's output of fdisk and grub.conf
for both Fedora 9 and Fedora 11?? soon to be
>
>
This would have been easier to fix before installing the
new
version. Probably the fastest fix is to boot the new
install, and
re-install Grub to the boot record of /boot. The boot in
the rescue
mode of the install DVD or boot CD. Tell it you want to
fix
re-install the boot loader of the F9 install. After
rebooting into
F9, edit grub and add a chainloader entry to the F11 /boot
directory. You can use the Windows entry as an example.
Mike
--
Black Holes are Where God Divided by Zero.
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Thanks Mikkel,
But it does not work. However, cutting and pasting the Fedora 9 grub entries for the
kernel lets me boot into Fedora 9, so practically it is a DONE deal. Thanks for answering
the mail much appreciated. The chainloader stuff did not work in this case, in the other
case it worked for a while, but the chainloader stuff failed to load those kernels only
GRUB_ appeared on the screen so cutting+pasting the entries solved this issue.
Regards,
Antonio