Multi-boot with grub and grub2 and chainloading
I have a multi-boot system. I have winxp, mepis8, slackware13, and ubuntu 9.10 alpha5.
I am having trouble with grub and grub2 not playing nice. I am unable to start ubuntu.
I have grub 0.97 installed from my mepis install in the MBR. I then chainload +1 win, slack, and ubuntu. I have slack 13 installed with lilo installed to the root partition. I have ubuntu 9.10 installed with grub2 installed to the root partition.
Here is my menu.lst file.
Quote:
timeout 60
color cyan/blue white/blue
foreground ffffff
background 0639a1
gfxmenu /boot/grub/message
title MEPIS at sda5, newest kernel
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 nomce quiet splash vga=791 resume=/dev/sda6
initrd /boot/initrd.img
boot
title MEPIS at sda5, previous kernel (if any)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda5 nomce quiet splash vga=791 resume=/dev/sda6
boot
title MEPIS at sda5, kernel 2.6.27-1-mepis-smp
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-1-mepis-smp root=/dev/sda5 nomce quiet splash vga=791 resume=/dev/sda6
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-1-mepis-smp
boot
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional at sda1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title Slackware
root (hd0,6)
chainloader +1
title Ubuntu 9.10
set root=(sd0,8)
chainloader +1
title MEMTEST
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
Origanlly I had just :
Ubuntu 9.10
root (sd0,8)
chainloader +1
I had errors:
File system type is ext2fs type 0x83
error 13 invalid or unsupported executable format
I changed it to
Ubuntu 9.10
set root=(sd0,8)
chainloader +1
Now I do not grt any errors but instead I get two lines that say:
chainload +1
grub
I have been searching and asked in the ubuntu forums with no luck. Will grub and grub2 not work together?
Thanke for any help, Kevin.