booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Sat Sep 19 16:44:59 UTC 2009


James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a machine with three hard-drives in it. two sata and one ide. I've
> a fedora 10 (upgraded from 9) on the first sata drive, and I've installed
> fedora 11 on the second sata drive. The machine boots off the first of these
> drives and the ide one contains windows. I copied the lines out of grub.conf
> on the f11 disk, and copied them to the grub.conf of the first disk, and
> reinstalled. However, f10 boots fine, f11 doesn't boot. and grub gives me an
> error 17.

have you considered/tried dropping 'uuid' and use 'hd1,0' or 'sd2a' instead?

i do not know how it will work with sata and f11, but i know i did this with
a pata f10 install.

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