This solved the problem: 1. Booted in to my Debian system. 2. Did #> grub-install /dev/sda13
where /dev/sda13 is the other distro's partition(in my case it is Fedora Core 9) which has /boot . 3. Rebooted and selected Fedora's kernel and it worked okay. Regards On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:38 AM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Fedora Core 9 alongside Debian. During the installation > I did not update grub and chose not to install grub since I wanted to > retain my Debian grub configuration. I have done this before. I just > change Debian's grub to put in the relevant stanzas for my FC kernel > (was FC8 till today). > > Here is my relevant stanza now in my Debian's grub's menu.lst: > title Fedora 9, kernel 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 > root (hd0,12) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro > root=UUID=3cfc63bf-9e84-49a3-90ad-3fa623141200 rhgb quiet vga=792 selinux=0 > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img > savedefault > > > FC9's / partition is /dev/sda13 and its home is /dev/sda14 (swap is > /dev/sda12). > > Its /etc/fstab is: > UUID=3cfc63bf-9e84-49a3-90ad-3fa623141200 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > UUID=4d049c49-6b8a-4cc6-9e42-87c1526094ad /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > UUID=f6df95d2-3f58-41f7-b906-a0f01c61f401 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > > If I select FC9's kernel, it reports something about bad file descriptor > and doesn't boot. > > The contents of /dev/sda13/boot are: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86348 2008-05-01 06:34 config-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-10-12 20:01 efi > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-07 13:32 grub > -rw------- 1 root root 2700907 2008-10-12 20:07 > initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 892575 2008-05-01 06:34 > System.map-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2088288 2008-05-01 06:34 vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 > > BTW, this is the first time I seeing executable permissions in vmlinux. > > Any idea what I need to fix? This system worked with fc8. > > Regards. > > > -- > > Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding > newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just > filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without > ever having been read. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
