I'm really scratching my head over this. I have a system with HD on hda & hdc, with 23 partitions on hda and 14 partitions on hdc. Among them I have installations of SUSE Factory, SUSE 10.0, Fedora 6, Debian Etch, Xandros 3, Ubuntu 6.10, Knoppix, DOS, OS/2 & windoz. I have separate grub /boot partitions for Etch on hda5 and for SUSE 10.0 on hdc5. Each of the others have their own grub versions installed on their respective roots, except for Xandros, which has lilo on its root. The MBR of each HD has generic code. IBM Boot Manager is installed on hda2 and hdc2. I did some disk space reallocation so that some of the distros would have larger root partitions. So far I've only successfully done the move with 1 of 4-5 total planned. ATM, I've succeeded in transplanting Fedora from hda22 to hda11. I can boot hda11 either by chainloading from elsewhere, or by selecting it from IBM BM. I've succeeded in copying SUSE Factory from hda21 to hda10, but from hda10 it will only boot if I use one of the other distro's grubs to start it, either from a menu stanza, or directly from a grub prompt.
From hda21 it still works as always.
When I try to load Factory on hda10 with IBM BM or by chainloading to Factory's installed grub, the system instantly cold boots. I've tried redoing the copy from hda21 to hda10 twice (total 3, with fresh mkfs -t ext3 each time), and tried grub-install by chrooting from a different distro's boot, by booting it, and by installing with --root-directory from a 10.0 boot, always with "no errors reported", but nothing changes anything. Grub reports no errors, so I have no idea how to troubleshoot. Any ideas? -- "Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven." Matthew 5:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org