On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: >On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:24:53 -0500, Gene wrote: >> I may not have had the syntax correct, but all I could get out of it was >> an error 13, invalid file format. > >Which you only get if you try to let GRUB "mount" a filesystem found >on a partition. > >> I have grub-0.97 (F10 32 bit) in the mbr of /dev/sda. >> I have grub-1.97 (Mint 8 64 bit) in the mbr of /dev/sdb. >> I have grub-0.97 (Mandriva 2009.1 64 bit) in the mbr of /dev/sdd. >> >> What would be the exact stanza in the F10 grub.conf to switch directly to >> the Mint 8 boot screen without involving the grub2 rpm or any of its >> utilities at all? > >Assuming that at boot-time your F10 GRUB maps /dev/sdb to 'hd1': > >title Mint 8 > rootnoverify (hd1) > chainloader +1 > >[And if you ever feel like installing a dist's boot loader not into the >MBR but into the boot sector of a partition, substitute the 'hd1' >appropriately). > And I believe I see my mistake, I was doing rootnoverify (hd1,0), a subtle difference that screwed it royally when the boot loader was written to /dev/sdb. This then should work, if it doesn't, I'll mutter in my morning coffee a lot & report back one way or the other. Thanks Michael. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> <Stealth> How do I bind a computer to an NIS server? <Joey> Use a rope? -- Seen on #Debian -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
