F13 -64 side-by-side with F11-32?

[Roberto Ragusa]

Ted Roche wrote:

> I'd thought I'd manually modify the current F11 boot to boot from the
> new install, but haven't found the correct incantation yet. In my
> /boot/grub/grub.conf, I have:
> 
> title Fedora-13
> root (hd0,7)
>   kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
>   initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.img
>
> When rebooted and this option selected, I get the message File not
> found with the line above it displaying the kernel command. I'm pretty
> sure I've got the hd0,7 line correct: the partition shows up as sda8
> when I'm in the other F11. And the path from the root of that device
> to the kernel (and the init) appears correct.

Maybe the GRUB from F11 has problems when accessing sda8 if it is
an ext4 filesystem.

GRUB has a console mode, try the commands manually to see what happens.

(for example, "root (hd0,7)" will print the filesystem type, then
"kernel /" followed by a tab will show the files which are present....)


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