booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

[James Allsopp]

Ok, I've tried substituting /dev/sdb2 and /dev/sda2 for the root, nothing
changes.

When I installed the F11 OS on sdb, I asked it to install the bootloader on
sda to overwrite my existing bootloader, this didn't work, so I rescued the
F10 OS and from there I reinstalled the bootloader onto /dev/sda. This got
F10 working again. I mounted dev/sdb1 and copied the lines out of the F11
grub.conf into the F10 (/dev/sda1) grub.conf then reinstalled the bootloader
(grub-install /dev/sda). F10 boots, but F11 doesn't., it gives me an Error
17.

Here's the F10 grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd1,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sdb
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet vga=0x318
    initrd /initrd-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686.img
title Fedora 11 64-bit
    root (hd1,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 ro
root=UUID=7ba6f364-68c2-4dad-a54e-18c3464b0eb5 rhgb quiet
    initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.img
title Other
    rootnoverify (hd2,0)
    chainloader +1

And here's the F11 grub.conf
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64)
    root (hd1,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 ro
root=UUID=7ba6f364-68c2-4dad-a54e-18c3464b0eb5 rhgb quiet
    initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.img
title Other
    rootnoverify (hd2,0)
    chainloader +1
title Fedora 10
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1


Thanks for any advice.
Jim


2009/9/20 Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com>

>
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:44 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
> If you are using chainloader for F10,
> grub has to be installed on F10 /boot partition.
>
> On the other hand, grub has to be installed on the mbr of the F11 disk.
>
> But you have to check on the BIOS, which drive is being used for booting.
> It has to be the one with grub on the mbr (F11 - hd1).
>
>
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