Couple of things re FC4 & yum

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 11 July 2005 12:12, Mike McCarty wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>On Monday 11 July 2005 11:24, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>This machine is a bit odd in that its actual boot partition isn't
>>>>even mounted by FC4.  Somehow, in rigging it for dual booting of
>>>>FC4 and emc's bdi, its now booting from (hd1,0) instead of
>>>>(hd0,0), so that when a new kernel is installed as was the case
>>>>this morning, I have to hand modify the /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst
>>>>and copy all the new stuffs from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1, which
>>>>when its booted to FC4, can be hand mounted as /mnt/bdi-boot.
>>>>/dev/hda1 is mounted by FC4 as /boot, but thats not where it
>>>> boots from.
>>>
>>>I'd suggest adding an entry:
>>>
>>>title Fedora Core 4
>>>        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>>>        chainloader +1
>>>
>>>to /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst
>>>
>>>You should then be able to pick FC4 from the OS's boot menu, and
>>>never have to fiddle with grub entries again.
>>>
>>>Paul.
>>
>>What would this do to the grub choice of boots menu?  And shouldn't
>>that be (hd0,0) which is the 'other' /boot partition that FC4 would
>>normally use if somehow grub hadn't been pointed at hdb?
>
>It will add a new entry.
>
Ok, thanks.

>if we broke out of the loop, then jump to the place we read
>    the bootstrap into
>else
>    display an error message about being unable to boot
>endif
>
>What happens from here on out depends on what is installed
>in the MBR or Boot Sector. I know what happens from here
>on out for DOS machines, but not for others. Anyway, there
>is supposed to be an entry in the PT which shows exactly
>one partition marked as ACTIVE (some call it BOOT)
>on hard discs.

Would you believe that both hda and hdb have a star in the boot column 
when fdisk is handed a p?  No?  But they do...  I would assume that 
the way back to sanity would be an 'fdisk -mbr /dev/hdb'?
>
>Mike
>
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