In my enthusiasm to give Open SuSE 11.3 a try, I seem to have messed up my
ability to boot the Kubuntu that I had set up on another partition.
Here's my partition layout
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1305 10482381 83 Linux <-- Open
SuSE 11.3 installed here
/dev/sda2 1306 2610 10482412+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2611 3915 10482412+ 83 Linux <-- Kubuntu
installed here
/dev/sda4 3916 36481 261586395 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3916 20198 130793166 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 20199 36481 130793166 83 Linux
SuSE uses old Grub (0.9.x) and it is installed on /dev/sda. Kubuntu uses
the newer version of Grub (1.9.x), so there are some incompatabilities (e.g.
partition naming is different, different architectures, pretty different
config files).
When SuSE installed it didn't handle the Kubuntu on /dev/sda3. I've
manually added an entry to SuSE's /boot/grub/menu.lst, changing the
partition (hd0,3) -> (hd0,2), Kubuntu boots and gets to a certain point
after checking the superblocks on all the partitions before it just hangs.
Here's the entry I added to the /boot/grub/menu.lst on /dev/sda1:
title KUbuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-23-generic
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic
root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3300831A_4NF0D2N3-part3 ro showopts apm=off
noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1
nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x375
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-23-generic
Any ideas what I could try next to get Kubuntu booting back up? Is there
something I need to do to make an old Grub boot a partition that was set up
with new Grub?
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Steve McCarthy
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