Re: multiboot problem in squeeze

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 20:05:44 -0400, Long Wind wrote:

> my hard disk looks like this:
> 
> sda1: Win XP
> sda3: Mandrake 9.2
> sda4: lenny

And you were booting from lenny, right?

> now I install squeeze at sda4
> (lenny erased)

And GRUB2 comes to place.

> XP boots OK
> but Mandrake 9.2 can't boot
> (After I select Mandrade in grub menu, it reboots)
> 
> I attach grub.cfg


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/sda3.
menuentry "Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 (on /dev/sda3)" {
	set root=(hd0,msdos3)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 0f25beee-f0b9-11e0-97a1-d11beb0186be
	linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk root=/dev/sda3 
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img


Wow... that's a very old Mandrake release (kernel 2.4.22), and from the 
above line, it seems that you are not using "chainloading" but directly 
booting your old Mandrake from GRUB2. If yes, then it can be that you 
(well, not "you" but the os-prober) missed something at the boot entry, 
I would try to manually boot Mandrake from GRUB2 command line, test some 
combos and when you finally get it, edit the corresponding menu file 
from ("/etc/grub.d/*") accordingly.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón