Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-02 Thread Tim
Tim: It means that, during bootup, that partition will be looked at to see if it has the data required to resume from hibernation Tom H: Thanks. By the way, it's not generally needed to specify that, so don't worry when you don't have such a parameter set. It may be needed if there's some

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-02 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Colin Brace c...@lim.nl wrote: Hi all, I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 along side F11. My disk now looks like this: /dev/sda1 F11 boot /dev/sda2 F11 root ... When I reboot, I get grub, which has entries listed for both systems, but when I try to boot

grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Colin Brace
Hi all, I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 along side F11. My disk now looks like this: /dev/sda1 F11 boot /dev/sda2 F11 root /dev/sda3 F11 swap /dev/sda5 F11 home /dev/sda6 9.10 root /dev/sda7 9.10 home /dev/sda8 91.0 swap When I reboot, I get grub, which has entries listed for both systems, but

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Jim van Wel
Hi there, With fedora, you normally point to the kernel directive. Like this: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_coolzeropc-lv_root rhgb quiet Here a full example: title Fedora (2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64) root (hd0,1) kernel

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Jim van Wel
And, you can try installing the fedora grub-0.97-51, which means you are overwriting the ubuntu grub 2. It should work, as it's only used for booting, but grub 2 is also little new to me. You got yourself a interesting problem :) Greetings, Jim. Hi there, With fedora, you normally point to

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Jim van Wel
Hint: http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/grub You could install the original grub instead of the grub 2, from ubuntu that is. And, you can try installing the fedora grub-0.97-51, which means you are overwriting the ubuntu grub 2. It should work, as it's only used for booting, but grub 2 is

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Aioanei Rares
Colin Brace wrote: Hi all, I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 along side F11. My disk now looks like this: /dev/sda1 F11 boot /dev/sda2 F11 root /dev/sda3 F11 swap /dev/sda5 F11 home /dev/sda6 9.10 root /dev/sda7 9.10 home /dev/sda8 91.0 swap When I reboot, I get grub, which has entries listed

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Philipp Böhm
But If you replace grub2 with the legacy grub, you have to add an boot-partition for ubuntu 9.10 because the legacy grub can't boot an ext4-partition, which is the standard-fs of ubuntu. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Colin Brace
Aioanei Rares-4 wrote: How many harddisks do you have in that machine? Just one. - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/grub-2%3A-%22error%3A-You-need-to-load-the-kernel-first%22-tp26148903p26154272.html Sent from the

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Tom H
I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 along side F11. My disk now looks like this: /dev/sda1 F11 boot /dev/sda2 F11 root /dev/sda3 F11 swap /dev/sda5 F11 home /dev/sda6 9.10 root /dev/sda7 9.10 home /dev/sda8 91.0 swap When I reboot, I get grub, which has entries listed for both systems, but

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 07:16 -0800, Colin Brace wrote: Hi all, I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 along side F11. My disk now looks like this: /dev/sda1 F11 boot /dev/sda2 F11 root /dev/sda3 F11 swap /dev/sda5 F11 home /dev/sda6 9.10 root /dev/sda7 9.10 home /dev/sda8 91.0 swap When I

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:10 +0100, Jim van Wel wrote: Hi there, With fedora, you normally point to the kernel directive. Like this: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_coolzeropc-lv_root rhgb quiet Here a full example: title Fedora

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 18:28:08 +0100, Philipp Böhm intelsonst...@web.de wrote: But If you replace grub2 with the legacy grub, you have to add an boot-partition for ubuntu 9.10 because the legacy grub can't boot an ext4-partition, which is the standard-fs of ubuntu. That changed in Fedora

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 22:56 +0200, Tom H wrote: What does resume=/dev/sda3 do? It means that, during bootup, that partition will be looked at to see if it has the data required to resume from hibernation (basically, a dump of the memory, when it went into hibernation), and it will resume from

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Tom H
What does resume=/dev/sda3 do? It means that, during bootup, that partition will be looked at to see if it has the data required to resume from hibernation (basically, a dump of the memory, when it went into hibernation), and it will resume from it, if it does, and if it can. Otherwise, it

Re: grub 2: error: You need to load the kernel first

2009-11-01 Thread Tom H
I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 along side F11. My disk now looks like this: /dev/sda1 F11 boot /dev/sda2 F11 root /dev/sda3 F11 swap /dev/sda5 F11 home /dev/sda6 9.10 root /dev/sda7 9.10 home /dev/sda8 91.0 swap When I reboot, I get grub, which has entries listed for both systems, but