Redirect Grub or copy new boot

Mark Sargent powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp
Mon Mar 14 16:00:38 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:

> Mark Sargent wrote:
>
>>> The idea to to add the "Fedora Core 3" entry to the FC2 grub.conf 
>>> file (used by the FC2 grub installed on the MBR), where this entry 
>>> chain-loads the FC3 grub from /dev/hda5, which has its own grub.conf 
>>> file within /dev/hda5.
>>>
>>> So you go through two levels of grub menus to boot FC3.
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> nah, Paul, that still gives the same eror as b4. How can I direct it 
>> to just go straight to the hda5 grub.conf to see if that will work..? 
>> Cheers.
>
>
> If you do that, you'll struggle to boot your FC2 system again.
>
> Tell me exactly what happens when you boot up. You get your FC2 boot 
> menu, right? It has a "Fedora Core 3" entry in it, corresponding to 
> this grub.conf entry:
>
> title Fedora Core 3
>     rootnoverify (hd0,4)
>     chainloader +1
>
> You select "Fedora Core 3" and then you get some error?
>
> Paul.
>
Hi All,

yes, happens exactly how you said it. The same error as b4,
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format

At this point, Paul, I'm not even thinking of being able to boot FC2(it 
seems stuffed anyway). Now, to boot straight to the FC3 grub.conf, I 
have to do the following, yes..?
grub>root (hd0,4)
          setup (hd0)
          quit
If so, that gives the same error as b4 too.
filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
after root(hd0,4)
Startin to really **** me off, eh. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.




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