GRUB problem in triple booting

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I installed Fedora 7, Ubuntu 7.04 and Windows XP. The GRUB is of Ubuntu and Fedora does not boot. it returns a "Kernel Panic. Attempt to Kill INIT." error. The kernel and other packages are up to date.
Here is my menu.lst entry for Fedora (there is no grub.conf file)

Code:

title           Fedora 7
root            (hd1,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd          /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img

LABEL=/ may be changed?try booting with the line changed as below:

Code:

title           Fedora 7
root            (hd1,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/sdb1 rhgb quiet
initrd          /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img

put the correct device file name (/dev/sdb1?)
if that too doesnt help,probably partition order changed or do u have separate /boot partn.

Try changing the title to just Fedora.

title has nothing to do with boot

Naah.. But i read somewhere that it takes the 7 up as runlevel and tries to boot into runlevel 7!

Edit here: *www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894

what is run level 7

there is a problem with fiesy7 distro, so install fedora7 after fiesty and install grub of fedora this may solve your problem, same thing was observed on open solaris forums.

Runlevel 7 is non-existent! Read that link and you will know more..

yep,I know that, offcourse I did not read through it.

kalpik and praka123 were both right. actually, GRUB recognised the 7 as runlevel 7 (which doesnt exist) and tried to boot, which caused the error changing the tile to Fedora and sdb1 worked perfectly

thnx all of u for ur replies.

Glad its solved