Can I Get a FC4T1 Installation Summary?

[Gerry Tool]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:43:56PM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
> 
>>Tino Meinen wrote:
>>
>>>But now i'm puzzled: how does one get a new bootrecord in the
>>>bootpartition so that one can chainload to boot into FC4t1?
>>>
>>
>>If you are using GRUB from another Linux partition, boot that system, 
>>mount the partition for FC4T1, open its /etc/grub.conf in an editor and 
>>insert the appropriate lines from it into the /etc/grub.conf for the 
>>system that is controlling the MBR.
> 
> 
> This is exactly _not_ the way to do that.  With every kernel update,
> or a tweak of boot options, you will have to remember to mount a
> partition holding this "master" grub.conf and edit _correct_ lines.
> With more complicated situations this becomes a major nuisance in
> a short time not mentioning rather long menu files.
> 
> Instead you follow what is described in a grub documetation as a wey
> to boot "foreign" operating systems (section 4.1.2).  That means
> that you add in the main grub menu, i.e. that one which shows up
> first, something like
> 
> title FC4T Test Installation
> rootnoverify (hd1,3)
> chainloader +1
> 
> making sure that this really points out to a location where you
> installed your "secondary" grub.  This could as well be another boot
> partition on the same or another disk.  That will go through _two_
> grub menus on boot but you will not have to touch your "main" menu
> again until you change something in boot records (or unless it holds
> also boot menu entries for your "primary" installation and they need
> some updates).
> 
> It is not that difficult to arrange to have at the "top" grub
> level only entries similar to the one above but anaconda will not
> lay out something like that for you.  A bit more of a manual
> intervention is required although this is not hard to figure out.
> 
>    Michal
> 
Your method is no-doubt superior to mine, but I've managed fine to keep 
is straight doing it this way for about 4 years with MANY different 
bootable partitions.  Each to his own.

Gery