grub won't work / DVD won't boot

[Jim Cornette]

Thoralf Polet wrote:
> I have a dual-boot pc w/FC2 and W2k.
> 
> Recently I had to re-install W2k. I don't remember
> when and how it happened (use primarly my notebook)
> but grub disappeared.
> 
> Last week I took my DVD drive to a little company
> where I take care for their Linux/Samba server. That
> server has no Internet connection nor CD/DVD-ROM drive
> so I used my own drive to update the Fedora system
> from the latest RedHat Magazine DVD.
> 
> I decided to update my rarely used PC too.
> 
> Problem 1: I can't boot from any DVD that was included
> in RedHat Magazine. I can boot from a FC1 CD-ROM (I
> have with DVD with 8 different Knoppix versions - that
> works).
> 
> Problem 2: I used to FC1 to boot 'linux rescue' and
> went for 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' and 'grub-install
> /dev/hda'. Seems to work fine and I don't get any
> error messages. grub doesn't find the FC2 system and
> I'm screwed.
> 
> Any ideas what went/is going wrong?
> 
> 

Since you have FC1 running again, you might need to either mount your 
disk that contains your boot partition and copy the kernel information 
from the mounted boot partition to your active boot partition.

Reading the portion that the FC1 rescue disc does not recognize FC2 as a 
choice, you might have try the FC2 rescue disc to see if it recognizes 
the FC2 installation. If that fails, you might need to try installing 
FC2 again.

Do you have seperate boot partitions for each installation?

Anyway, the list archives might have some helpful hints as to how to get 
back the missing installation.

Jim
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