This one is driving me batty. I have an AMD64 laptop, and I have 3
different versions of Mandrake installed so I can try out the 64-bit
version, plus one 9.2 32-bit that I can fall back on. I started out
with 9.2 32-bit and installed grub into the MBR for that. I then
installed 9.2 64-bit and 10.0 64-bit into other partitions, telling the
installer to put grub into that partition instead of the MBR. Then I
just copied the appropriate lines out of boot/grub/menu.lst from each of
those 64-bit installations into the menu.lst for the 32-bit install. I
was able to successfully boot all three.
But of course I couldn't leave well enough alone. Mandrake said they
weren't going to support my eMachines laptop, which requires some
custom tweaks. So I figured I'd give fedora64 core2 a try, and
reformatted my Mandrake 10.0 64-bit partition. Did the same
trick of copying lines from fedora menu.lst into Mandrake 32-bit
menu.lst, everything worked. Didn't like fedora (really gotten used to
Mandrake, and like it.) So I wanted to put 10.0 back into that
partition and see if I could tweak the kernel myself for the eMachines.
Finally, my problem: I've now installed 10.0 64-bit twice (using same
hard-drive install files from the first successful install.) Install
finishes fine. But each time I try to boot, it tells me:
Error 2. Bad file or directory type
I can't find a grub messages file that informs me what it can't
find. I searched google and found some hits but none really helped.
I'm out of ideas. I'm baffled how reinstalling the exact same files as
the first time now produces a non-bootable system. I can still get
into 9.2 32-bit and 9.2 64-bit. Here is what my working 9.2 64-bit grub
entry looks like:
title linux64-nonfb
kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 noapic devfs=mount
acpi=off resume=/dev/hda10
initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img
(kernel line wrapped.) The one that doesn't work looks exactly the same
but with different partition numbers. Appreciate all suggestions to get
this working again. Thanks.
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Guy Rouillier
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