Grub question (Ahem....help! Now it just says 'GRUB')

[Rick Stevens]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>
>> You need to check the fstab and see if you're using labels or partition
>> numbers.  If you use partition numbers, moving hda7 may cause it to not
>> mount.
> 
> 
> I am using partition numbers. Good info from Stuart seems to go a long 
> way to explaining what I've been dealing with.
> 
> 
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>> My laptop still has SC7, but it's not active (it's been grubified), so
>> I can't really get into it right now.
> 
> 
> That's perfectly OK.
> 
> This is the same laptop where some months ago I was unable to run system 
> commander from the drive and you pointed out I could boot form the SC7 
> CD and get to partition commander. It was RH9/Win XP, became Gentoo/XP, 
> and is now triple booting Win XP/Gentoo/FC2 as I compare how FC2 works. 
> It's been far too difficult deal with RPM dependency hell to keep RH9 
> working well. Gentoo is better (to me anyway) for building from straight 
> source, but the PlanetCCRMA site is doing some things with FC2 kernels 
> that I want to test out.
> 
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>>
>> Remember, the BIOS of your machine will pass control to the MBR of the
>> primary drive.  Whatever is installed there is then responsible for
>> booting the rest of the stuff.  For grub to do the full boot duties, it
>> needs to be installed in the MBR of your primary hard drive.
>>
>> If you want SC7 to do the booting, it must be installed on the MBR of
>> the primary hard drive.  grub must be in the root directory of whatever
>> partition you tell SC7 contains Linux, and you must tell SC7 which
>> partition that is.  It's usually pretty good at figuring it out, but
>> double check.  For most people, this would be the partition that
>> contains the /boot directory.
> 
> 
> SC7 is installed and booting XP, but was failing on Gentoo's grub due to 
> moving the partition /dev/hda5. Installing FC2 on a new set of 
> partitions, with it's own grub on /dev/hda8, and telling SC7 to make 
> hda8 bootable brought FC2 alive and allowed me to get both FC2 and 
> Gentoo working just fine.
> 
>>
>> Sorry for my inactivity on the list the last few days, but it's been a
>> bit, well, "farking crazy" here.
> 
> 
> Not a problem at all. Life calls, the list waits! ;-)

Actually, it's more like "the boss and the clients are whining"  :-P
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