Dual boot with fc6 ???

Since FC6 was your last install then /boot/grub/menu.lst has taken over the MBR so copy the Mepis /boot/grub/menu.lst entry to your FC6 menu.lst

Wayne

PS: If that was your FC6 grub you might need to do this

title MEPIS at hdb1, kernel 2.6.15-1-586tsc
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-586tsc root=/dev/hdb1 nomce quiet vga=791

Mepis was my last install, and boots very nicely. Fc6 is the one that will not boot.

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Try this in your Mepis /boot/grub/menu.lst

title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img

or

title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img

Put them both in, can't hurt, and see if one will work.

Wayne

I feel like an old lady in a parking lot backing in to a car over and over. I have installed both fc and mepis over and over in an endless succession tryng to get them to play nice together. I have tried instaing grub to hda, hdb, root, and not installing at all in an effort to get the original grub to boot mepis. Here is how it stands.

First I installed fc6 on hda.

Second, installed mepis on hdb. I had mepis install grub in mbr on hda.

I added both entries suggested by Wayne. Thank you.
The error message I get when booting is something like this.

hd0,0 vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

error 15 file not found

I'm realy liking mepis at this point but I do need it to dual boot. I like to play with others to. I have never seen this problem before. I have used SuSe 9, 10, Lycoris Desktop L/X, and Xandros 3.0 and all have been able to set up a dual boot by default. It seems as though Grub is de- evolving. Don't feel bad. Fedora didn't do any better.

Any more Ideas, maybe a boot floppy? Did'nt see the option to create one any where.
Thanks, Jeff

you can make a boot floppy using grub's own tools.
someone will chip in and tell you how if needed
i had smart boot manager installed once to deal with multi-booting and it went well. there are other tools too.

You should have kept the fedora bootloader and then just chainload Mepis.
This is done by writing the Mepis grub to root instead of MBR.
You can still do that with the live-cd.
system config>system admin>mepis utulities.

Then add to the fedora boatloader;

title Mepis at hdb1
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

After that you can set "timeout" to 1, in the Mepis /boot/grub/menu.lst, if you want.

That was perfect Yamal. Thank you so much. You made my day.