Can I Get a FC4T1 Installation Summary?
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 17 20:00:11 UTC 2005
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
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