And, you can try installing the fedora grub-0.97-51, which means you are
overwriting the ubuntu grub 2. It should work, as it's only used for
booting, but grub 2 is also little new to me. You got yourself a
interesting problem :)
Greetings,
Jim.
> Hi there,
>
> With fedora, you normally point to the kernel directive. Like this:
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_coolzeropc-lv_root rhgb quiet
>
> Here a full example:
>
> title Fedora (2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64)
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_coolzeropc-lv_root rhgb quiet vga=0x31B
> initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64.img
>
> This should work without problems. Of course, you need to set the
> root=/dev/mapper/whatever to your suitable settings. Good luck!
>
> Greetings,
> Jim.
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 along side F11. My disk now looks like
>> this:
>>
>> /dev/sda1 F11 boot
>> /dev/sda2 F11 root
>> /dev/sda3 F11 swap
>> /dev/sda5 F11 home
>> /dev/sda6 9.10 root
>> /dev/sda7 9.10 home
>> /dev/sda8 91.0 swap
>>
>> When I reboot, I get grub, which has entries listed for both systems,
>> but
>> when I try to boot Fedora now, I get an error message: "error: You need
>> to
>> load the kernel first". (Ubuntu boots fine).
>>
>> I've tried booting manually from the grub command line, but the commands
>> no
>> longer appear to be the same, as Ubuntu is now using grub 2. Here are
>> the
>> relevant section from grub.cfg (menu.lst is now obsolete):
>>
>> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
>> menuentry "Fedora (2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586) (on /dev/sda2)" {
>> insmod ext2
>> set root=(hd0,2)
>> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7
>> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586 ro
>> root=UUID=5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7 rhgb resume=/dev/sda3
>> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586.img
>> }
>> menuentry "Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586) (on /dev/sda2)" {
>> insmod ext2
>> set root=(hd0,2)
>> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7
>> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 ro
>> root=UUID=5a8b0f33-5369-4a45-a501-455ed10f4fa7 resume=/dev/sda3 rhgb
>> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586.img
>> }
>> ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
>>
>> The above entries were generated automatically.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to fix the error?
>>
>> Alternately, is there a way of telling the MBR to boot /dev/sda1 (F11
>> boot)
>> instead of /dev/sda6 (Ubuntu root), which is what is happening now?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -----
>> Colin Brace
>> Amsterdam
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