Re: editing grub in lenny to boot from ext4 partition

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

Umarzuki Mochlis schreef:
> Assuming Debian Lenny's installer will detect a Ubuntu 10.04 (daily 
> build) partition in my PC (debian = /dev/sda1, ubuntu = /dev/sda3), i 
> installed Lenny on sda1 but Ubuntu entry does not show up on GRUB.  
>
> # grub-install -v
> grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)
>
> so i proceed to edit grub taking example from Ubuntu's grub.cfg like below
>
> ...

> but i can't boot that partition, where did i go wrong or Lenny's version 
> of GRUB cannot boot from ext4 partition?
I thought grub1 does not boot from ext4. Anyway, grub2 does, so 
installing grub2 should solve your issues.

Sjoerd
PS. Make sure you have a rescue cd when installing new bootloaders. An 
error is all too easily made (either by you, the installer or whatever 
else) and usually results in an unbootable system.

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