I installed fedora 8 as the 3 OS .

I couldn't load in mandriva 2009 error2 :BAD FILE or directory type. from GNU GRUN.97

Here is the fdisk O/P :-

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdcefdcef

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6374 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6375 17272 87538185 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 17273 18164 7164990 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 18165 18572 3277260 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 6375 11473 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 11474 15935 35840983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 15936 16917 7887883+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 16918 17272 2851506 82 Linux swap / Solaris

and here is the menus-list from /boot :

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# 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=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
title WinXP64
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

title MANDRIVA
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=ba7fcd5c-9f8b-11dd-8571-8bc71cc17489 splash=silent vga=788
initrd /boot/initrd.img


thanks.

How was the entry for Mandriva generated? eg, did the Mandriva installer setup and install GRUB?
Can you still boot into Fedora and Windows?

Make sure that the Mandriva /boot directory has a file (or link) named "vmlinuz" (I always make soft-links in /boot, so that I can always use "vmlinuz" in menu.lst)

I don't know what this does:
BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=ba7fcd5c-9f8b-11dd-8571-8bc71cc17489

I would simply replace it with the traditional root=/dev/sda7

Is there a question in there somewhere?

I can boot into MANDRIVA and windows, after i installed Fedora i couldn't boot mandriva but fedora and windows are fine.

Here is the grub menu.lst from mandriva boot before install Fedora:-

timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,6)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=ba7fcd5c-9f8b-11dd-8571-8bc71cc17489 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=ba7fcd5c-9f8b-11dd-8571-8bc71cc17489
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=ba7fcd5c-9f8b-11dd-8571-8bc71cc17489 failsafe
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd.img

title windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1


thanks