Trying to boot Fedora Core 6

[jc87]

I just did a instalation of Fedora Core 6, during which i selected my secondary hard-drive as Fedora Core 6 install location, and all went fine until i reboot and i cant seem to be able to enter at FD 6.

At my secondary disk Fedora Core 6 doesnt seem to be properly installed at the MBR, because when i set the bios to boot from the secondary disk it gives me an error saying there is no OS installed, but FD6 partitions are there:

Dispositivo Boot Início Fim Blocos Id Sistema
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 2434 19446682+ 8e Linux LVM

I also tried to boot FD 6 from the grub at the primary hard disk but gives me an error 15 file not found:

title Fedora Core 6
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/hdb1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
quiet
savedefault
boot

So now i´m looking for ideas about which is the possible problem, anyone?

[Sal811]

Couple of questions first:
1- What do you have on hd1?
2- How do you want to boot into FC6? That is, do you want to set your BIOS to boot from the 1st drive, display the grub and choose the different OS's installed on your computer, or do you want to switch the BIOS to the secondary drive everytime you want to boot into FC6.

Are you sure the MBR wasn't wriiten to the primary drive? Have you tried booting whatever OS you have installed on that drive? to see if it's still intact.

[Sal811]

Correction, first question is what do you have on hd0? Your primary drive.

[jc87]

Couple of questions first:
1- What do you have on hd0?
2- How do you want to boot into FC6? That is, do you want to set your BIOS to boot from the 1st drive, display the grub and choose the different OS's installed on your computer, or do you want to switch the BIOS to the secondary drive everytime you want to boot into FC6.

Are you sure the MBR wasn't wriiten to the primary drive? Have you tried booting whatever OS you have installed on that drive? to see if it's still intact.

1) To be honest i don´t know to respond, is hd0 the mbr ???

If yes is the same since i installed Ubuntu 6.10 a couple of weeks ago, and continues to load the exact same Grub, with the exact same configs, and loads the same OS´s, so yes i´m quite sure it wasn´t modified in any way by Fedora.

2) For me both are fine (but i do prefer the first if possible) as long as i can boot into FD6, which isn´t hapenning with neither at the moment.

Edit : I forgot to mention that thoose Fedora Core Grub booting configs that i posted at the first post were added manually to /boot/grub/menu.lst by me in a tentative to boot FD 6.

[Sal811]

OK, lets try this. I'm assuming your primary drive that is running Ubuntu does support grub based on your response.

Copy and paste the following into Ubuntu's grub file:
title Fedora Core 6 (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/hdb1 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img


Reboot from the primary drive and you should be good to go..