Installed 2008,rebooted,old 2006 started up
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From: dale's news stuff on 26 Oct 2007 13:46 I installed 2008 dvd version.Every thing went smoothly but when I was prompted to remove the boot media and reboot the old 2006 ver is what came up. I have no idea where to go from here to get 2008 to start up. Help please,Dale
From: Bit Twister on 26 Oct 2007 13:59 On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:46:33 GMT, dale's news stuff wrote: > I installed 2008 dvd version.Every thing went smoothly but when I was > prompted to remove the boot media and reboot the old 2006 ver is what > came up. > I have no idea where to go from here to get 2008 to start up. Guessing, you did not indicate that you wanted 2008 boot loader installed into the MBR. You may want to read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html If we knew which boot loader used, you might get better answers. What you do is add the 2008 install to your boot loader config file and you should be able to boot either install.
From: dale's news stuff on 26 Oct 2007 15:41 Bit Twister wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:46:33 GMT, dale's news stuff wrote: >> I installed 2008 dvd version.Every thing went smoothly but when I was >> prompted to remove the boot media and reboot the old 2006 ver is what >> came up. >> I have no idea where to go from here to get 2008 to start up. > > Guessing, you did not indicate that you wanted 2008 boot loader installed > into the MBR. Now that you mention this I recall that when the install got to the install boot loader it had a choice there that said some thing like install 2008 but it was greyed out and I could not select or deselect that option. I then clicked on next and it went merrily along until it finished. I believe the reason for that is I screwed up when partitioning and did not set a mount point for the new partitions. I am using grub as the boot loader. > > You may want to read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > If we knew which boot loader used, you might get better answers. > > What you do is add the 2008 install to your boot loader config > file and you should be able to boot either install.
From: Bit Twister on 26 Oct 2007 15:48 On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:41:03 GMT, dale's news stuff wrote: > I am using grub as the boot loader. Ok, then you may get by cutting/pasting your current 2006 stanza in /boot/grub/menu.lst and changing the title, (hdx,x ) and /dev values to 2008's values. Or you could try cutting/pasting the stanza from /2008/boot/grub/menu.lst into /boot/grub/menu.lst if you mounted 2008's / at /2008
From: Unruh on 26 Oct 2007 20:29
dale's news stuff <dwinters6(a)verizon.net> writes: >I installed 2008 dvd version.Every thing went smoothly but when I was >prompted to remove the boot media and reboot the old 2006 ver is what >came up. > I have no idea where to go from here to get 2008 to start up. >Help please,Dale You see when it boots up, right after the intial bios stuff, a list of possible things to boot comes up. choose the 2008 option. |