On 6/26/11 7:00 PM, jackson byers wrote:
> >
> >>I tried adding
> >> chainloader +1
> >>to grub.conf .
> >>
> >> makeactiveWhen I tried to use it, I got
> >>Error 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.
>
> >You need to get a new(er) BIOS as the physical location where
>
>>I tried adding
>> chainloader +1
>>to grub.conf .
>>
>> makeactiveWhen I tried to use it, I got
>>Error 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.
>You need to get a new(er) BIOS as the physical location where F14 is
located cannot be >used for booting by your current
On 6/24/11 3:55 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, jackson byers wrote:
>>
I messed up installing F14 and don't know how to fix it.
What I had planned to do was reuse a /boot partition and put the rest
in a single new
>> You first message showed an F14 stanza (no chainloading).
>> Try calling that; just copy it to your F13 grub.conf
>> and then choose it instead of the F13 default
> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
> That's *almost* what I did before starting this thread.
> I'd thought that I had to copy ot
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 11:28 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I'd thought the root command just determined what the kernel made / .
> Having reread the info entry on root,
> I'm still a little fuzzy on what it does.
In the grub.conf (or menu.lst files, they're the same file), the root
parameter in
On 06/25/2011 12:11 PM, jackson byers wrote:
> 2) I have never found it necessary to edit /etc/mtab
You should never, under any circumstances edit /etc/mtab. It's a list
of what partitions are currently mounted, where and with what options,
not a configuration file. The file to edit if you wan
>> I tried adding
>>title chain14
>> rootnoverify (hd1,8)
>> makeactive
>> chainloader +1
>> to grub.conf .
>> When I tried to use it, I got
>> Error 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.
>>Could the problem with using my boot partition with my
>>F14 be that
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, jackson byers wrote:
> You first message showed an F14 stanza (no chainloading).
> Try calling that; just copy it to your F13 grub.conf
> and then choose it instead of the F13 default
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
That's *almost* what I did before starting this thread.
>> Alas, F13.
>> I suspect that the problem might be that putting a bootloader
>>in (hd1,8) doesn't make the startup code (BIOS?) use it.
> I tried adding
>title chain14
> rootnoverify (hd1,8)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>to grub.conf .
>When I tried to use it, I got
>Error 18
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, jackson byers wrote:
>
>>> I messed up installing F14 and don't know how to fix it.
>>> What I had planned to do was reuse a /boot partition and put the rest
>>> in a single new partition I had already created for the purpose.
>>>
> Alas, F13.
> I suspect that the problem might be that putting a bootloader
> in (hd1,8) doesn't make the startup code (BIOS?) use it.
--
> Michael h
what do you mean? F13 should boot automatically if it is the default.
Did you choose the F14 stanza?
Did it then fail? what error?
Jack
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, jackson byers wrote:
>> I messed up installing F14 and don't know how to fix it.
>> What I had planned to do was reuse a /boot partition and put the rest
>> in a single new partition I had already created for the purpose.
>> I forgot about the /boot partition and I think I tol
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, jackson byers wrote:
>> I messed up installing F14 and don't know how to fix it.
>> What I had planned to do was reuse a /boot partition and put the rest
>> in a single new partition I had already created for the purpose.
>> I forgot about the /boot partition and I think I tol
> I messed up installing F14 and don't know how to fix it.
> What I had planned to do was reuse a /boot partition and put the rest
> in a single new partition I had already created for the purpose.
> I forgot about the /boot partition and I think I told it the
> wrong thing when it asked where to p
I messed up installing F14 and don't know how to fix it.
What I had planned to do was reuse a /boot partition and put the rest
in a single new partition I had already created for the purpose.
I forgot about the /boot partition and I think I told it the
wrong thing when it asked where to put the boo
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