FC7T2 Dual Boot issues.

[Ronald Warsow]

Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> To test CentOS 5, I loaded from DVD adding it to
> a system at home running Fedora Core 7 T2.
> 
> Partition Layout is:
> /dev/hda1   -  / for the RH7T2 system
> /dev/hda2   -  /home
> /dev/hda3   -  swap
> /dev/hda4   -  extended
>    /dev/hda5 - / for CentOS 5
> 
> The system loaded cleanly and gave me the 
> opportunity to tell grub about the other system.
> CentOS boots fine.  Grub Stage 2 will show me 
> both systems.
> 
> However,
> If I choose the FC7T2 system I get the following output:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Booting 'FC7T2'  
> 
> rootnoverify(hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
> 
> Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> The CentOS grub.conf on /dev/hda5 looks like:
> 
> #: cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
> file
> # NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
> #          root (hd0,4)
> #          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5
> #          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title CentOS (2.6.18-1.2747.el5)
> 	root (hd0,4)
> 	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2747.el5 ro root=LABEL=/1 quiet
> crashkernel=64M at 16M
> 	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2747.el5.img
> title FC7T2
> 	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> 	chainloader +1
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Any clues on how to fix this?
> Note, I am posting to both groups since I follow both
> and cannot figure out which is the better choice.
> 
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
section 14.3 for the error message
section 3.2 if you want to install grub in MBR. or with a rescue cd.


-- 
      ronald