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* At the moment, with all LiveUSBs removed, I was able to boot into F17 only. I could not see any option to boot into F14.

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* Boot into F17.

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* In one terminal, open the file "/etc/grub2.cfg" (in editable mode). The original contents should be on the lines of

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### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###

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* In another terminal, mount F14 on a directory.

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-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3696448 Oct 18 2010 vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686

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* Now, open the contents of "qq/boot/grub/menu.lst"

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* Now, in the originally opened "/etc/grub2.cfg", add the entry for boot-option for Fedora-14. ~~Note~~ that

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* Now, in the originally opened "/etc/grub2.cfg", add the entry for boot-option for Fedora-14. Take note that

** Replace the UUID, with the UUID of F14 partition (as seen from contents of "qq/boot/grub/menu.lst".

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** The arguments to "initrd" ~~shoube~~ of the initramfs of F14 (As seen from the output of ~~<code>~~ls qq/boot~~</code>~~

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** The arguments to "initrd" should of the initramfs of F14 (As seen from the output of '''ls qq/boot'''

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** ~~<code>~~hd0,msdos5~~</code>~~ (corresponding to "/dev/sda5" for F17) is replaced by ~~<code>~~hd0,msdos6~~</code>~~ (corresponding to "/dev/sda6" for F14).

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** '''hd0,msdos5''' (corresponding to "/dev/sda5" for F17) is replaced by '''hd0,msdos6''' (corresponding to "/dev/sda6" for F14).

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** Finally, the command ~~<code>~~ kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=333b5104-4f4a-41d9-856a-c7802677bec0 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet~~</code>~~ (as seen in ~~<code>~~qq/boot/grub/menu.lst~~</code>~~, used to boot up kernel vis F14's grub) is replaced by ~~<code>~~linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=333b5104-4f4a-41d9-856a-c7802677bec0 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet~~</code>~~ (in ~~<code>~~/etc/grub2.cfg~~</code>~~, since we intend to boot F14 via F17's grub2).

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** Finally, the command '''kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=333b5104-4f4a-41d9-856a-c7802677bec0 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet''' (as seen in '''qq/boot/grub/menu.lst''', used to boot up kernel vis F14's grub) is replaced by '''linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=333b5104-4f4a-41d9-856a-c7802677bec0 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet''' (in '''/etc/grub2.cfg''', since we intend to boot F14 via F17's grub2).

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initrd /boot/initramfs-3.3.4-5.fc17.i686.img

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### [STARTS] OPTION TO ADD BOOT-UP OPTION FOR F14 ###

menuentry 'Fedora Linux 14' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-333b5104-4f4a-41d9-856a-c7802677bec0' {

load_video

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initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.img

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### [ENDS] OPTION TO ADD BOOT-UP OPTION FOR F14 ###

submenu 'Advanced options for Fedora Linux' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-1ff89cae-60bc-40fb-9e3c-e16e4850caa3' {

menuentry 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.3.4-5.fc17.i686-advanced-1ff89cae-60bc-40fb-9e3c-e16e4850caa3' {

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