dual boot fc4 and rawhide

Xavier Toth txtoth at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 16:11:03 UTC 2005


I want to dual boot FC4 and Rawhide . So far I've added a second disk
to my system
which I recently upgraded to FC4. I actually disconnected the original
disk and installed FC4 on the new one letting the installer partition
the disk. Now I've reconnected the original disk and am trying to
configure grub to allow me to boot off either disk. I added an entry
to device.map for the new disk (hb1 /dev/sdb) and copied the stuff in
grub.config and changed the titles and root commands (root (hb1,0))
for the new disk. Unfortunately it only ever boots off the original
disk even when I use one of my new titles. This may not have been the
best way to approach this problem any advice would be appreciated.

grub.conf

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
password --md5 
default=0
fallback=2	
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Rawhide (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp.img
title Rawhide (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img




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