Hello forum,
I have a multiboot configuration with several Linux distros (including Mandriva) and one partition for WindowsXP.
I decided to use the Windows partition to install Gentoo 2007 and I'm fairly sure I have edited the menu.lst file correctly but Gentoo will not boot, it gives me an error 17 - can't mount selected partition.
I am using the Mandriva Grub bootloader to handle booting all of the partitions. All of the partitions boot up fine except for Gentoo, where Windows XP used to be.
I was wondering if the chainloader configuration that Mandriva automatically wrote to make Windows bootable is causing this problem since Gentoo does not need a chainloader. All I did to prepare the Windows partition for Gentoo was format it with ext3. I also commented out all entries for WindowsXP in the menu.lst file and added entries for Gentoo directly under it.
If this chainloader configuration is causing problems, is there a way to fix it?
Here is the Mandriva's menu.lst file. It is kind of messy due to commented out entries but it has worked fine in the past.
Code:
timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
default 0
title Linux Mandriva 2007
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-5mdv root=/dev/hda5 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.17-5mdv.img
#title Linux Mandriva 2007 -nonfb
#kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5
#initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img
#title Linux Mandriva 2007 failsafe
#kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 failsafe
#initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img
#title Microsoft WindowsXP service pack 2
#root (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1
title Gentoo Linux 2007
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda1
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
#title Slackware v12
#kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp root=/dev/hda6
#initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-lowlatency
root# hda6, boot entry
title Slackware v12
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.21.5-smp root=/dev/hda6
initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.gz
title Linux openSUSE version 10.2
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default
title Zenwalk 5
kernel (hd0,9)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12 root=/dev/sda10
initrd (hd0,9)/boot/initrd.splash
#title Sabayon version 3.4e
#kernel (hd0,7)/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-sabayon
#module (hd0,7)/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-sabayon
title Linux Sabayon version 3.4e
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-sabayon root=/dev/sda8
module /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-sabayon
title Linux Mint version 3.0
kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=/dev/sda9
initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
*title PCLinuxOS 2007
*kernel (hd0,9)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8.tex5 root=/dev/hda10
*initrd (hd0,9)/boot/initrd-2.6.18.8.tex5.img
title GoblinX Premium 2008.1
root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda11
initrd /boot/initrd
savedefault
boot
title Ubuntu Studio version 7.04
kernel (hd0,11)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=/dev/sda12
initrd (hd0,11)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
Thanks in advance,
Roy
