I have just stuffed up my triple boot system: Fedora/WinXP/RH7.2
BACKGROUND: Taking a HDD with an existing RH7.2 installation, and
putting it into a functioning Fedora/XP dual boot system so that it
can be booted (don't ask why - there are good reasons).
ACTION: Booted into fedora, added the RH7.2 boot partition into
/etc/fstab, mounted the rh /boot partition, changed its label, copied
the lines from its grub.conf file into the fedora grub.conf file with
relevant changes (eg, changing it from hd0,1 to hd1,1) (after backing
up grub.conf, or course).
PROBLEM 1: The new option shows up on the boot screen; however, when
I choose it, I get the following error:
root(hd1,1)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
Kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb3
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
PROBLEM 2: Worse, when I select to boot into Fedora, I get the
following errors:
Unable to open /etc/fstab for writing: Read only file system.
(then other "Read only file system" errors when the system tries to
touch a file, until the boot hangs).
Can't figure out how to fix it when I get into the grub command-line,
either.
Fortunately I can still boot into Windows (or I wouldn't be sending
this email!) :-/
Edwin Humphries,
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.ironstone.com.au
Phone: 02 4233 2285
Fax: 02 4233 2299
Mobile: 0419 233 051
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