fc9: kernel won't boot
H.S.
hs.samix at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 19:07:41 UTC 2008
H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed FC9 alongside Debian. During the installation I did not
> update grub and chose not to install grub. 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 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 sytem worked with fc8, don't know what
> I did wrong today with fc9 installation.
>
> Regards.
>
>
This solved the problem:
1. Booted in to my Debian system.
(idea from this forum thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/partial-success-installing-grub-error-2-643342/)
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
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