On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:37 AM, H.S. <hs.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/07/10 03:07 PM, H.S. wrote:
>>
>> Curiously though, update-grub is now detecting Fedora 13! It was not
>
> Well, I wrote that too soon.
>
> Here is what update-grub puts in /boot/grub
> /grub.cfg regarding the Fedora 13 installation:
> #######################################################
> menuentry "Fedora release 13 (Goddard) (on /dev/mapper/vg1-lv8)" {
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set
> b40b5b7f-6999-4a12-9d3b-62e0fc892a40
> linux /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 root=/dev/dm-1
> }
> #######################################################
>
> It is missing the initrd line. Without that line the kernel does not
> boot and panics and halts.
>
> I have to put the correct stanza myself in /etc/grub.d/40_custom to get
> the correct grub entry which works:
> #######################################################
> menuentry "Fedora release 13 (on /dev/mapper/vg1-lv8)" {
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext4
> set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set
> b40b5b7f-6999-4a12-9d3b-62e0fc892a40
> linux /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vg1-lv8
> ro quiet
> initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64.img
> boot
> }
> #######################################################
>
> So there still appears to be some problem somewhere.
Yes. The Fedora/RHEL initrd names are not recognized by Debian/Ubuntu's grub...
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