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#1 2009-07-14 00:00:40

webofunni
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Not able to boot debian using the arch installed grub

HI,

  I installed arch after debian, so arch grub replaced the one that debian installed. I have added the debian entries in arch grub

title        Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686
root        (hd0,5)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda6 ro noapic quiet
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686

But the grub is not booting it. It says no such file. The same entries are working in debain grub, if I recover that one using debain install CD. Any idea/solution

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#2 2009-07-22 20:42:56

ndowens
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Re: Not able to boot debian using the arch installed grub

title Debian
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
makeactive
chainloader +1

try that and see, may not work but it's a shot


My site: ndowens.tk

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#3 2009-07-23 03:48:59

djszapi
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Re: Not able to boot debian using the arch installed grub

title Debian
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
makeactive
chainloader +1

We ues this by Windows OS mostly smile))) You must specify exactly the kernel, initrd, root... How can it work ? smile)))

Is the arch and debian on the same harddisk ? Are the two menu.lst the same really (of course without arch mark in the arch menu.lst)

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#4 2009-07-23 04:15:14

wickedlester
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Re: Not able to boot debian using the arch installed grub

webofunni, are you sure that arch linux is seeing your partitions the same way that debian does? Not sure how many drives you have. debian may show /dev/sda6 where are linux may show it as something else (doubtful if you only have one drive though).
I usually set up grub and fstab using uuid. look here for some info on that.

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#5 2009-07-23 05:50:42

tomk
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Re: Not able to boot debian using the arch installed grub

At boot time, go to the grub prompt and use tab completion to find the correct entries.

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#6 2009-07-23 06:15:11

webofunni
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Registered: 2009-05-25
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Re: Not able to boot debian using the arch installed grub

Hi All,

  Thank you for the suggestions.

  But I have already solved it. That was my mistake. The drive order were changed when I deleted and recreated the swap for Arch. That was the problem.

wickedlester, Yes that is a good option to avoid this type of issues.

Thanks again to all.

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