Followup to my anaconda+grub+dual-boot issues

Nigel Wade nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
Fri May 7 14:52:29 UTC 2004


Matt Hansen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> As a followup to my post to this list a week ago regarding anaconda,
> grub and dual booting, I have *almost* resolved it to a state I'm happy
> with. Didn't attract any replies last time, hoping someone will kindly
> offer some advice on this updated scenario.
> So, I installed FC2t3 in a separate partition from FC1 so I can
> dual-boot them. However, this time I installed FC2t3's grub to the first
> sector of the boot partition so it wouldn't overwrite the existing
> bootloader configuration for FC1 et al. Next I set up a chainloader
> entry in FC1's grub.conf so that when I select that entry the grub
> screen for FC2t3 is displayed. So, this is all fine, but my question now
> is how can I get back to the FC1 grub menu once I've jumped to the FC2t3
> one? During installation of FC2t3, Anaconda realised I had FC1 on
> another partition and set up a grub entry for it as a chainloaded
> configuration, but when selected it produces an error 13 I think (forgot
> to write it down..). Will I have to set up a regular grub stanza for it
> with root,kernel,initrd? I was hoping to simply chainload it. 
> 
> TIA and regards,
> -Matt
> 

What is it trying to chainload?

I would think that to chainload you would have to have grub loaded into the 
boot sector of the FC1 /boot partition (as well as the MBR). I don't think 
you can chainload an MBR.

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