[CentOS] Booting C 6.0 from C 5.7

Rilindo Foster rilindo at me.com
Mon Dec 5 15:05:40 UTC 2011


Somebody could correct me, but if the installed Centos install is on a ext4 file system, then the installed version of grub needs to support it. Which version of grub are you running and from which distro?

 - Rilindo Foster
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On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:53 PM, Always Learning <centos at u61.u22.net> wrote:

>> Despite using the usually successful methods of booting into another
>> operating system from C 5.7, I can't get into C 6.0
>> 
>> Tried:-
>> 
>> title C6-0 (2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64)
>> 
>>    rootnoverify (hd0,6)
>>    chainloader +1
>> 
>> and
>> 
>>    root (hd0,6)
>>    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 ro
>> root=UUID=67c62872-0c69-451c-8412-3c218c0d2cb0 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM
>> rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
>> KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk
>>    initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64.img
> 
> 
> 
> The GRUB error is:-
> 
> 13 : Invalid or unsupported executable format
> 
> This error is returned if the kernel image being loaded is not
> recognized as Multiboot or one of the supported native formats (Linux
> zImage or bzImage, FreeBSD, or NetBSD).
> 
> 
> Bewildered.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
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