GRUB and the last FC4 kernel
Hoffmann
oasf2004 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 4 20:15:44 UTC 2005
--- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 12:20 -0700, Hoffmann wrote:
> > First of all, thanks to all of you that answered
> me.
> > One more question: As a test, I opened the
> > /boot/grub/grub.conf
> > and I comment the previous FC4 kernel. After that,
> I
> > noticed that I was not able to 'enter' to Windows.
> So,
> > I uncomment the previous FC4 kernel, and all was
> fine.
> > SO, the question is: After uninstalling the
> previous
> > FC4 kernel, will I be able to have my dual boot? I
> > mean, will I be able to 'enter' either FC4 or
> Windows?
>
> That would depend on how much you mangled your
> grub.conf file whilst
> editing it. Why not post the contents of it here?
>
> It's very unlikely that your dual-boot would be
> broken when removing the
> kernel - a more likely problem would be that there
> was an entry left for
> the removed kernel that would not work (since the
> kernel was deleted).
>
> Paul.
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Hi Paul,
Please, see below my grub.conf.
My idea is to unistall the old FC4 kernel
(2.6.11-1.1369_FC4), and keep the new FC4 kernel and
Windows. Could you, let me know what do you think?
Thanks!
Hoffmann
ps: my grub.conf file:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means
that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
/boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1387_FC4)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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