This solved the problem:
1. Booted in to my Debian system.
2. Did
#> grub-install /dev/sda13
where /dev/sda13 is the other distro's partition(in my case it is Fedora Core 9) which has /boot .
3. Rebooted and selected Fedora's kernel and it worked okay.
Regards
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:38 AM, H.S.
<hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I just installed Fedora Core 9 alongside Debian. During the installation
I did not update grub and chose not to install grub since I wanted to
retain my Debian grub configuration. I have done this before. I just
change Debian's grub to put in the relevant stanzas for my FC kernel
(was FC8 till today).
Here is my relevant stanza now in my Debian's grub's menu.lst:
title Fedora 9, kernel 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
root (hd0,12)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro
root=UUID=3cfc63bf-9e84-49a3-90ad-3fa623141200 rhgb quiet vga=792 selinux=0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img
savedefault
FC9's / partition is /dev/sda13 and its home is /dev/sda14 (swap is
/dev/sda12).
Its /etc/fstab is:
UUID=3cfc63bf-9e84-49a3-90ad-3fa623141200 / ext3 defaults 1 1
UUID=4d049c49-6b8a-4cc6-9e42-87c1526094ad /home ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
UUID=f6df95d2-3f58-41f7-b906-a0f01c61f401 swap swap defaults 0 0
If I select FC9's kernel, it reports something about bad file descriptor
and doesn't boot.
The contents of /dev/sda13/boot are:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86348 2008-05-01 06:34 config-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-10-12 20:01 efi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-07 13:32 grub
-rw------- 1 root root 2700907 2008-10-12 20:07
initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 892575 2008-05-01 06:34
System.map-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2088288 2008-05-01 06:34 vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
BTW, this is the first time I seeing executable permissions in vmlinux.
Any idea what I need to fix? This system worked with fc8.
Regards.
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