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I've been using Ubuntu for bout 3 months now and wanted to try something different so I choose Fedora 7, Still havnt got the hang of rpm based gets a bit confusing going from Deb based but then again i'm a noob so never mind.
Anyway when i installed Ubuntu it deleted the grub booter and now I only have Fedora to choose from. I tried to edit it to add ubuntu and it did but everytime it tries to boot in it crashes on the boot up bar right at the beginning. I was wondering if anyone could help, heres a copy of both the /boot/grub/menu.lst i changed
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd.img-1.6.20-16-generic
quiet
"menu.lst" 47L, 1563C 22,34 Top
I've been using Ubuntu for bout 3 months now and wanted to try something different so I choose Fedora 7, Still havnt got the hang of rpm based gets a bit confusing going from Deb based but then again i'm a noob so never mind.
Anyway when i installed Ubuntu it deleted the grub booter and now I only have Fedora to choose from. I tried to edit it to add ubuntu and it did but everytime it tries to boot in it crashes on the boot up bar right at the beginning. I was wondering if anyone could help, heres a copy of both the /boot/grub/menu.lst i changed
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd.img-1.6.20-16-generic
quiet
"menu.lst" 47L, 1563C 22,34 Topp
I've been using Ubuntu for bout 3 months now and wanted to try something different so I choose Fedora 7, Still havnt got the hang of rpm based gets a bit confusing going from Deb based but then again i'm a noob so never mind.
Anyway when i installed Ubuntu it deleted the grub booter and now I only have Fedora to choose from. I tried to edit it to add ubuntu and it did but everytime it tries to boot in it crashes on the boot up bar right at the beginning. I was wondering if anyone could help, heres a copy of both the /boot/grub/menu.lst i changed
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd.img-1.6.20-16-generic
quiet
"menu.lst" 47L, 1563C 22,34 Top
Fedora:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd.img-1.6.20-16-generic
quiet
"menu.lst" 47L, 1563C 22,34 Top
About "root (hd0,1)", it says on your other menu.lst file that Ubuntu is on root (hd0,0). So it could be that your grub is searchin for Ubuntu on the wrong partition.
About the initrd thing: It has to be 2.6.20, not 1.6.20. Or is it only a typo here?
I guess that should fix it. Grub is very reliable if set up correctly.
In the Fedora version you have ubuntu as (hd0,1) but in ubuntu you have (hd0,0)
Surely they should both be the same??? I'd try changing the ,1 to ,0 and see what happens.
yusuo - you have made me work. All 3 of your identical threads have been merged to this thread. This thread has been moved to Linux-Distributions. I have added code tags to your code because scrolling so much was giving me muscles on one finger.
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