booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

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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Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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